Thread subject: Diptera.info :: unknown fly 5, Northern Germany > Exorista larvarum or fasciata
Posted by Lennart Bendixen on 31-12-2014 19:46
#1
Hi,
could someone please identify this fly, or at least its family?
Thank you & best regards!!
Lennart
2014-07-24, 10 a.m., Northern Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Mohrkirch, wild meadow
Edited by Lennart Bendixen on 01-01-2015 22:37
Posted by Juergen Peters on 31-12-2014 23:29
#2
Hi Lennart,
my non-expert opinion: Sarcophagidae.
Posted by John Carr on 01-01-2015 00:05
#3
I think Tachinidae, which can have four stripes, rather than Sarcophagidae, which normally have three stripes. The thorax could belong to a
Musca but the rest looks like Tachinidae instead.
Posted by Lennart Bendixen on 01-01-2015 19:40
#4
ok, thank you! :-)
Is it possible to identify the genus, too?
Greetings,
Lennart
Posted by Zeegers on 01-01-2015 22:31
#5
Tachinidae it is !
Exorista larvarum or fasciata.
Theo
Posted by Lennart Bendixen on 01-01-2015 22:38
#6
Thank you very much, Theo! :)