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Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 12:55

Hi

* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.10.02
* size - 9 mm (big fly)
* habitat - woodland
* substrate - near Mentha sp.

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 03-10-2007 13:31

Posted by ChrisR on 03-10-2007 13:11

Peleteria ... note the 2 strong bristles on the face, between the eyes and the vibrissae :)

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 05-10-2007 11:21

how can we know the possible species? What are the characters I must seek for?

Posted by ChrisR on 05-10-2007 12:25

I have never seen them here in the UK so I am not the best to ask, but Theo might know. I have had a look in the Central European key and it keys to Peleteria varia (to which it bears a striking similarity in general appearance too!) but there is always a caveat that you are outside the range of the key and you might/probably have other species to consider :)

Posted by Filex on 05-10-2007 13:02

Hi Chris

Could you please post the bibliographic reference of the Central Europe key that you mention? Thanks

Miquel

Posted by ChrisR on 05-10-2007 13:09

Hi Miquel

It is:

Tschorsnig, H.P. and B. Herting. 1994. Die Raupenfliegen (Diptera: Tachinidae) Mitteleuropas: Bestimmungstabellen und Angaben zur Verbreitung und ?kologie der einzelnen Arten. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 506, 170 pp.

But I can do better than that - here is a link to a page on my site where you can download the English translation & figures: http://tachinidae...nloads.php The file is passworded but the password is just "password"

Let me know how you get on with it :)

Chris R.

Posted by crex on 05-10-2007 14:11

Interesting, but I get "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged" on both zip files :(

Edited by crex on 05-10-2007 14:11

Posted by ChrisR on 05-10-2007 14:45

Strange, I just tried it here and it works fine :o If you still have problems then just PM me and give me your email address and I will email them to you :)

Posted by crex on 05-10-2007 16:49

#10

OK, I'll try at home later tonight first. The download seemed fine, but the files didn't open ...

Edited by crex on 05-10-2007 16:50

Posted by Filex on 06-10-2007 06:14

#12

Many many thanks! It is fantastic to make available such a useful tool!

Miquel

Posted by Susan R Walter on 06-10-2007 14:22

#13

Jorge

Can you please upload your second image to the gallery? Or to the new overviews forum maybe - then people can add suitable Nowickia, etc, as they come in. Your photo shows the Peletaria facial bristles really clearly.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-10-2007 19:07

#14

I will do that, Susan. I also have lots of photos to upload . :)
I'm glad I found a new family today! :) be tunned. ;) it is the most spectacular fly I saw this year so far. ;)

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-10-2007 19:10

#15

Theo, I think that in this case it is not easy to know the species.. right? :)
Thank you!