Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae - Compsilura concinnata (not Clemelis)
Posted by eklans on 28-09-2023 12:02
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Ansbach, garden near Frankenhoehe Nature Park, old deciduous forest, 2023-08-16
on Euonymus japonicus
tachinidae.eu led me to a male
Clemelis, but the wing venation looks like
C. majuscula from Southern France. Is Clemelis correct? Not correct: male
Compsilura concinnata
Thank you for your comments, Eric
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Posted by eklans on 28-09-2023 12:03
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Posted by Zeegers on 29-09-2023 11:18
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I am thinking male Compsilura and the ocellars seem missing …. you can check the original.
Thanks for the many angles !
Theo
Posted by eklans on 29-09-2023 11:51
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Thank you so much Theo! My silly mistake: I don't no why, but I've excluded Compsilura because I thought it should have bare eyes - which is of course not true! And yes,
no ocellars!
I see Compsilura frequently on Buxus (looking for
Cydalima perspectalis, the Buxusmot?)
Edited by eklans on 29-09-2023 11:51
Posted by Zeegers on 01-10-2023 08:29
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Nice. Compsilura is highly polyphagous, and I think the only Tachinidae regularly found in both Lepidoptera and Symphyta.
And yes, it is atypical for a Blondeliini in having hairy eye, 4 post DC and so on. Males therefore are tricky.
Compsilura is still common in southern Europe, but has become extremely rare if not extinct in large areas of central Europe, I haven’t found it since my youth. No idea what is happening.
Theo