Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinid or Sarcophagid?

Posted by Zeegers on 26-02-2007 21:59
#5

I agree with all that this looks like a Tachinid.
However, if Nikita doesn't see a swollen postscutellum....

The proboscis is peculiarly enlarged.
This is a feature of the Calliphorid-genus Bengalia from the old world tropics. So Nikita might try to look there ...
Beware: long shot.


Theo Zeegers