Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Parasetigena silvestris, Tachinidae, Hungary, May 2006

Posted by Xespok on 06-10-2007 08:23
#1

A spring species. Jizz similar to a Linnaemya, but head profile is different.

Edited by Xespok on 07-10-2007 15:56

Posted by Xespok on 06-10-2007 08:24
#2

Lateral shot.

Posted by Xespok on 06-10-2007 08:26
#3

Another individual, same species as the one shown by the first two pics?

Posted by ChrisR on 06-10-2007 10:17
#4

Looks very like a sarcophagid (long body, grey chequered dusting on abdomen, big pulvilli) but it is a tachinid, which might suggest something like Phorocera ... but I'll wait for Theo on this one :)

Posted by Zeegers on 06-10-2007 11:22
#5

That's my thought as well, Phorocera or maybe Parasetigena.
Can't tell the number of DC.
My gut feeling tells my Parasetigena.


Theo

Posted by Xespok on 06-10-2007 18:16
#6

Parasetigena it must be, becasue it was a large species.

Also looking through my P. images it appears to me, that a good jizz feature is that in P. the head and the body is often separated by a wide fluffy area formed by white occipital hair. This species looks like a spanish or dutch nobleman with the broad white collars fashionable in the 16th centrury.