Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Grey Tachinid, 7 mm

Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-09-2007 02:55
#1

Hello!

Another Tachinid from near the forest (yesterday, Ostwestfalen/Germany). Can someone put a label on it? Thanks in advance!

Posted by Zeegers on 16-09-2007 08:08
#2

This is asking a lot.
The pic is consistent with Blondelia nigripes female.
But many details cannot be seen....

Theo

Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-09-2007 20:07
#3

Zeegers wrote:
The pic is consistent with Blondelia nigripes female.
But many details cannot be seen....


Thanks, Theo! Unfornately I only have one other photo from the same angle - then it was gone...

Posted by Juergen Peters on 17-09-2007 23:58
#4

Hello!

Maybe this one from yesterday is the same species?

Posted by ChrisR on 18-09-2007 09:19
#5

Not the same species - look at the bend in vein M and the hairy eyes - totallty different. The second fly looks more like a Phryxe but I am not 100% sure.

Posted by Zeegers on 18-09-2007 17:58
#6

I agree, looks like Phryxe


Theo

Posted by Juergen Peters on 18-09-2007 20:13
#7

Hello, Chris and Theo!

Chris Raper wrote:
Not the same species - look at the bend in vein M and the hairy eyes - totallty different. The second fly looks more like a Phryxe but I am not 100% sure.


Thanks! I have always difficulties to see, whether eyes are hairy or bare :-(. The only difference I saw was that the eyes were somewhat more red.

Posted by Zeegers on 19-09-2007 17:05
#8

In the field or on the pic ?
Look at the right side of the right eye, clearly haired.


Theo

Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-09-2007 19:06
#9

Hello, Theo!

Zeegers wrote:
In the field or on the pic ?
Look at the right side of the right eye, clearly haired.


In the field my eyesight is mostly too faint to see more than 'just a small fly'... ;). On the pics I am often not sure, whether I see photo artifacts ("noise"), some dust, pollen or the like.