Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Calliphorid?

Posted by Zeegers on 12-04-2006 20:54
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Nice to know I am considered the supreme court in Calyptratae.
Just to warn you: never believe anybody always. Keep checking !
Those with a good memory will remember my mistake last year on Picconia incurva (luckily corrected by the ultra court H.P. Tschornsig).

Anyway, let's get to the fly:

in the wing there is a topcel with a very long stalk.
therefore (to European standards) it can never be a Calliphoridae nor a Sarcophagidae - Sarcophaginae.
Obvious possiblities are either Tachinidae or Rhinophoridae.
The calyptrae look large, which would rule out Rhinophoridae.

Therefore, I agree with Nikita's call: Tachinidae.


The species puzzles me a little, difficult to tell. The stalk is too long for Lypha.
It seems to be in Wagneriini.
If the species is from very early spring, say before now, no doubt the species is Kirbya moerens.

So that's my guess: Kirbya moerens (Tachinidae - Wagneriini)

Good find, by the way.

Greetings


Theo