Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae 01.08.2006 (3)
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 02-08-2006 11:16
#1
Ozhigovo station, Naro-Fominsk district, Moscow region.
Size 8-9mm.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 02-08-2006 11:16
#2
Another view.
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 02-08-2006 11:17
#3
The head.
Posted by Zeegers on 02-08-2006 20:48
#4
The erect apical scutellar bristles and bare eyes indicate Lydella.
Females of Lydella are difficult to separate.
The arista is thickened up to halfway (max), so it is not grisescens. Could be either stabulans or thompsoni.
Any indication of the locality you found it ?
Theo
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-08-2006 07:47
#5
Regarding the locality, it's a wet meadow at the edge of mixed forest, with blooming umbellifers, Lysimachia, etc., and a lot of Carex cf. vesicaria and broad-leaved grasses.
Posted by Zeegers on 03-08-2006 18:05
#6
I checked my keys and it is a female Lydella thompsoni.
This agrees very well with the biotope presented:
hosts of thompsoni are reedboring Noctuidae like Nonagria.
So, a wetland species.
Thanks
Theo
Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-08-2006 23:09
#7
Thank you very much Theo