Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae ?, Canadian

Posted by Tony T on 27-08-2007 18:19
#1

27 August 2007, New Brunswick, Canada.
Thinking Tachinidae but reddish-tipped abdomen = perhaps Sarcophagidae

Posted by Zeegers on 27-08-2007 20:10
#2

IN our universe, this would be Linnaemyia.

Maybe in yours too ?

Theo

Posted by Tony T on 27-08-2007 22:43
#3

Thanks Theo. 3 spp. listed in Stone's 1965 Catalog for NB: glauca, subpolita, tessellata

Posted by Liekele Sijstermans on 29-08-2007 10:21
#4

Linnaemya to be precise.

Some more species are mentioned in:

http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/Cklist/Cktach.pdf

like Linnaemya comta

Liekele

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 29-08-2007 11:46
#5

Always I thought that termination -mya wasn't correct but -myia...

Posted by Zeegers on 29-08-2007 13:16
#6

Some write -mya in some cases , some (like me) write always -myia.

There is no such thing as correct spelling, it simply depends on the rules you follow. See previous posts on this matter.


Theo

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 29-08-2007 13:38
#7

thank, Theo. Sure I will take a look.

Posted by Tony T on 29-08-2007 18:20
#8

Liekele Sijstermans wrote:
Linnaemya to be precise.

Some more species are mentioned in:

http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Tach/Cklist/Cktach.pdf

like Linnaemya comta

Liekele

Thanks for your input. Difficulty with that list is that it does not list distribution of species, the fauna can be vastly different across the NA continent. The species I listed have all been recorded in the NE where I live.