Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sarcophagid

Posted by John Bratton on 17-01-2017 18:02
#1

Can anyone identify this one, please? The genitalia look unusual. Collected 16 May 2016 basking on brambles in Gronant Dunes, North Wales. It has hypopleural bristles and a bulbous postscutellum but I can't key it out using the Belshaw tachinid key. Could it be a rhinophorid, Trichogena rubricosa?

Edited by John Bratton on 18-01-2017 12:43

Posted by John Bratton on 17-01-2017 18:03
#2

Genitalia

Posted by John Bratton on 17-01-2017 18:03
#3

Same again.

Posted by John Bratton on 17-01-2017 18:04
#4

Sternites

Posted by tristram on 17-01-2017 22:12
#5

Looks more like Sarcophagidae

Posted by Zeegers on 18-01-2017 08:21
#6

It is.

For the Sarcocians :)


Theo

Posted by John Bratton on 18-01-2017 12:44
#7

Thanks for the pointer. I don't have a sarcophagid key but I've changed the heading above so maybe someone will recognise it.

Posted by Zeegers on 18-01-2017 14:59
#8

Smart move.

Posted by andrewsi on 18-01-2017 20:45
#9

Looks pretty good for Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) dissimilis...a small, dark Sarcophaga with 3 post-sutural DCs, long scutellar apicals, vein 1 setulose and a black epandrium.

Edited by andrewsi on 18-01-2017 20:46

Posted by John Bratton on 20-01-2017 19:12
#10

Thanks very much. I'll check the details you mention.

John