Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae
Posted by conopid on 05-10-2009 10:42
#1
This Tachinid has the apical scutellar bristles missing, so it's proving difficukt to key with Belshaw. It looks familiar, but I can't decide what it is.
It's a medium sized Tachinid, with extensively orange-brown scutellum. It also has very distinctively bent post vertcials (the outer ones). What might this fly be?
Posted by conopid on 05-10-2009 10:43
#2
Outer post vertical
Posted by conopid on 05-10-2009 10:44
#3
here it is (had spaces in the file name)!
Posted by conopid on 05-10-2009 10:45
#4
front view
Edited by conopid on 05-10-2009 10:46
Posted by ChrisR on 05-10-2009 11:18
#5
Carcelia sp. ? :)
The gena looks very narrow and on a scutellum like that the apicals should be crossed.
Edited by ChrisR on 05-10-2009 12:52
Posted by conopid on 05-10-2009 13:54
#6
Thanks Chris, I'll check it out tonight.
Posted by conopid on 05-10-2009 21:36
#7
Yes it's Carcelia ( I should really have known by the size of the eyes). Carcelia lucorum. A very late female taken on 4 October in my Shropshire UK garden.
Posted by ChrisR on 05-10-2009 22:18
#8
Nice :) Will you send it in with your other records for 2009?
Posted by conopid on 06-10-2009 09:57
#9
certainly will :)