Posted by Margarita Auer on 12-08-2007 21:16
#1
Dear members,
Can You help me to identify this orange fly? Size between 10-13mm.
I saw it sitting on Pastinaca sativa which seems to be one of the favourite plants for the tachinidae flies.
Photo from 3.8.07 / eastern part of Austria.
Thank You
Margarita Auer
Posted by ChrisR on 12-08-2007 21:44
#2
It's definitely a tachinid but I have never seen one like this so we'll have to wait for Theo to comment :)
Saying that, I have run it through the Palaearctic software key and it comes down to
Solieria,
Leskia,
Fischeria &
Rondania. It's definitely not
Rondania or
Fischeria and it doesn't look like any
Solieria I have ever seen so I am guessing
Leskia ... but it's just a guess :)
Posted by Zeegers on 13-08-2007 07:38
#3
That's why it's called an 'educated guess', Chris.
Leskia aurea (our only Leskia) it is.
Theo