Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae?, Germany

Posted by Pristurus on 28-11-2013 02:17
#1

2013-07-28, found climbing in the moss on an old stump in a forest near Marburg.
Regards, Ingo

Video: https://commons.w...07-28.webm

Posted by piros on 28-11-2013 03:09
#2

Ocytata pallipes?
Regards.
Henrik

Posted by John Carr on 28-11-2013 04:15
#3

I think Siphonini. Ocytata pallipes has incomplete M and nearly parallel bristles near the tip of the scutellum.

Is there a picture from the side showing the mountparts?

Posted by Zeegers on 28-11-2013 10:08
#4

John is right (though Ocytata can have a complete venation):

it is simiply a Siphona.


Theo

Posted by ChrisR on 28-11-2013 10:55
#5

Siphona (or the broader Siphonini) are always quite distinctive because they are quite hunch-backed; usually brownish; the median vein is quite smoothly curved; the subapical scutellars are convergent; and wing vein r4+5 has hairs along it, usually to crossvein rm. :)