Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tiny Gymnosoma
Posted by Cecile on 27-04-2007 18:05
#1
This little tachinid female seems to me as Gymnosoma sp., but the size is really shorter than usual (4-5 mm, as Cistogaster sp.)!
More I try to find, grater it's difficult :(
Found on parsley flowers, near Paris (France) in July 2006.
Posted by Cecile on 27-04-2007 18:09
#2
the same one
Posted by Cecile on 27-04-2007 18:10
#3
and the last photo
Posted by ChrisR on 27-04-2007 22:26
#4
Gymnosoma nitens perhaps? :) That's the really small species here and the specimen I have has a slightly stripey abdomen.
Posted by Cecile on 28-04-2007 21:11
#5
Thanks Chris.
Gymnosoma nitens is a new sp. for me! ;)
Posted by ChrisR on 28-04-2007 22:37
#6
It would be new to me too - if I could find one! ;) Here they are rare and quite restricted to the east, around London.
Posted by Zeegers on 30-04-2007 18:38
#7
Looks like Gymnosoma nitens.
Which is, in my mind, so different from the other ones that I personally prefer the name Stylogymnomyia nitens.
Theo
Posted by Cecile on 30-04-2007 19:49
#8
Thanks Theo ;)