Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Stratiomys sp. (horrible picture)
Posted by Isidro on 17-06-2007 18:57
#1
Yesterday at Sabi?anigo, Aragon, Spain.
I'm very happy because is the first time that I see a Stratiomys. It was very big and beautiful fly, but it flied around the flowers and don't stop much time, and I only can make one photo. In this photo I focused the Thymus flowers and not in the Stratiomys.
But I hope that can be identified.
20-23 mm long. Shrubs (Genista scorpius, Thymus vulgaris, etc) and rocks, in Pre-Pyrenees.
The thorax full of polen makes more difficult the determination.
Posted by Isidro on 20-06-2007 14:20
#2
Really can't be identified? :(
Posted by Tony Irwin on 20-06-2007 15:07
#3
Hi Isidro
I had a long look at this one, but couldn't find a satisfactory answer. It doesn't really fit any of the
Stratiomys I know exactly, and the antennae look rather blunt -tipped, like
Alliocera graeca, but that is way out of range. Another photo, or a specimen, please. ;)
Posted by Isidro on 20-06-2007 18:51
#4
No more photos... I tried it but the fly can fly!!! And I stayed sad because the only photo that I obtained was very bad.
I can't imagina that could be another genus, but I don't know any on Diptera, so, now I'm not sure of nothing... the fly is very big, I said, 2 cm... as a Tachina grossa....