Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phasiinae -> Hemyda obscuripennis

Posted by paqui on 18-09-2010 21:45
#1

By Miguel Yuste (cut from http://www.biodiv...42854.html)

- C Spain, Segovia
- City garden, 806m
- 31.may'08
Thanks :)

Edited by paqui on 19-09-2010 22:54

Posted by ChrisR on 18-09-2010 22:08
#2

Very interesting ... not Gymnosoma, not Cistogaster, doesn't have dark wing patches so not Ectophasia ... not Elomyia lateralis ... but after all that I am not sure what it *is* :D

Posted by paqui on 18-09-2010 22:13
#3

Maybe "itīs not", can a fly be wrong itself? I think that too many times :(
Thanks :)

Posted by ChrisR on 18-09-2010 22:16
#4

Well, it is certainly a tachinid - so it is right-enough ;)

Posted by Zeegers on 19-09-2010 16:55
#5

Looks like Hemyda obscuripennis.

The darkening of the wing is 'covered' by the flash


Theo

Posted by ChrisR on 19-09-2010 17:05
#6

That's interesting ... the abdomen looked too round and bristly for me to think of a Hemyda :)

Posted by paqui on 19-09-2010 22:53
#7

thanks :)

Posted by Zeegers on 20-09-2010 18:21
#8

Chris

i agree it is unusually bristly, if it is Hemyda. The number and length of bristles seem to be quite variable, I have just noticed in my collection. So it still might be correct.
And I don't have an alternative.
Dusting on thorax agrees perfectly well !

Theo

Posted by ChrisR on 20-09-2010 19:11
#9

I agree, it does look odd and I couldn't think what else it might be :)

Posted by Zeegers on 21-09-2010 06:58
#10

There is an alternative: Besseria lateritia, the Besseria with open topcel. However, the abdominal pattern does not agree.
If you could see more of the head....


Theo