Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Tachinidae?
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 18-05-2013 22:05
#1
I think these are Tachinidae, but am not sure. Malaise trap. Townsville, Queensland.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 18-05-2013 22:06
#2
Different fly, but same species.
Posted by ChrisR on 19-05-2013 00:10
#3
Definitely Tachinidae - probably Siphonini - but I can't say much more without seeing the specimens :)
Edited by ChrisR on 19-05-2013 00:11
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-05-2013 00:15
#4
Thanks Chris. I thought it would be Tachinidae. The two specimens had an unusual alignment on the Taxon ID Tree I get from BOLD. So just thought I would check.
Posted by Jaakko on 19-05-2013 18:27
#5
Hi Graeme,
That must be a
Siphona sp. Out of curiosity, what do you mean by unusual alignment? There is now quite many species of
Siphona in BOLD. They show surprising sequence variety compared to many other geni. Would be fun to know which one of our species is close to yours.
Cheers,
Jaakko
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-05-2013 19:16
#6
Hi Jaakko,
I have produced a pdf from BOLD of closest species. Where will I send it?
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 19-05-2013 19:24
#7
This is a screen capture of the tree I was refering to. The two species are gvc9549 and gvc12379. They are located well away from the rest of the Tachinidae. I believe they will be the only Siphona species I have collected. The scale bar is 5%.
Posted by Jaakko on 28-05-2013 11:20
#8
I found this old thread, sorry for delay!
I think that must be a contamination by another sample or some other error. It happens sometimes. Is qvc9549-1L identical to the one above?
You can click open the sequence page of the sample, copy it and paste it in the identification engine of BOLD and compare the sequence to the all other sequences in the database.
Posted by Jaakko on 28-05-2013 11:22
#9
Here´s how it looks like, click the "Identification" tab to enter it.
Cheers,
Jaakko
Edited by Jaakko on 28-05-2013 11:24
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 28-05-2013 20:09
#10
The flies pictured in this post are gvc12379 and gvc9549. With two specimens I find contamination less likely. Ideally I would send some more to BOLD, but that is closed now.
You can achieve comparison withe the entire database also by using Record Search then clicking on the number in the Sequence Page column.
Cheers, Graeme