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.

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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....