Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Brazilian Tachinidae #4 - ID Help

Posted by Antonio Carlos on 07-11-2012 20:48
#1

I guess it is from the family Tachinidae, and would like to get help in their identification, because it is very common here in the region where I live.

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Coordinates of the place where I took these photos:
Latitude: -22.538541813366, Longitude: -43.2277572155


Date and time:
September 26, 2011 at 11.24am GMT+3

Thanks for help!
AC

Edited by Antonio Carlos on 04-03-2016 01:07

Posted by ChrisR on 07-11-2012 22:49
#2

Definitely Tachinidae - possibly Blondeliini :) Lovely photos!

Keep the photos coming ... it's always good to see neotropical tachinids and there are a few that I can identify - honestly! ;)

Edited by ChrisR on 07-11-2012 23:31

Posted by Antonio Carlos on 09-11-2012 00:17
#3

Could you point a possible genus, Chris?
The photos are coming!:)
Thank you very much.

Posted by ChrisR on 09-11-2012 10:39
#4

Very unlikely ... the Blondeliini were the worst tribe that Monty Wood had to deal with when he constructed his Central American key. It took him months and months of frustration because it is so difficult to split the genera logically.

I have seen many similar flies from the neotropics but whenever I tried keying them I got lost! ;) You have to remember that the only key to genera that we have was designed to work in Costa Rica (and Monty acknowledges that it isn't even complete for Central America) ... so any fauna from Colombia southwards is pushing the key further than it was intended to work - and the biodiversity of the tachinids goes sky-high as you enter the Andean & Amazonian regions.

Posted by Antonio Carlos on 09-11-2012 18:48
#5

I appreciated your comment and I understand the difficulty that you explained.
In this conditions, must be even very hard to work.
Thank you very much, Chris!


Posted by John Carr on 02-04-2016 23:14
#6

Superficially similar to Calolydella.

Posted by John Carr on 10-03-2019 19:24
#7

In the key by Fleming et al. (2018) it goes to Calolydella trifasciata (Walker, 1837). Fronto-orbital plate gold, parafacial white, abdomen with dark median stripe, thorax with four dark stripes, T3 with two pairs of discals. This is a widespread species and probably common because it was described so early and has two junior synonyms.

https://doi.org/1...J.6.e11223