Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Identified: Bactrocera (Zegudacus) cf. tau

Posted by Isidro on 28-04-2007 20:38
#1
This fly was trapped into a ship at Yangtze river, up to the Three Gorges Dam. The river is flanked by bamboo forest, Juniperus forest, dry mixed forest and hogh climbs. The fly size is about 15-20 mm, the normal size in an European Conops. I don't find anything about this fly. Can you help me?


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Thanks.
Regards ;)
Edited by Isidro on 29-04-2007 08:10

Posted by Eric Fisher on 28-04-2007 23:15
#2
This fly is a Tephritidae: Bactrocera (Zeugodacus) sp., possibly tau. A large number of Bactrocera spp. are very serious agricultural pests.

Eric

Posted by Isidro on 29-04-2007 08:09
#3
Many thanks Eric!!!!!!!!! ;) I don't think that can be identified.

This fly is very big for a Tephritid, and the form is of a Conopid, by these reasons I thinked that is a Conopid fly, I'm new for dipterans and I don't know very much about them.

I comproved it in Google and is identical for me! Thanks! :D