Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Red and black tachinidae

Posted by Philippe moniotte on 11-08-2017 09:22
#1

Hello all,
I first thought it was Peleteria rubescens, but somehow, I doubt it now that I have looked closer. Any opinion ?
10 mm approx. Reserve naturelle de Sclaigneaux, Belgium, on sandy soil.
August 7th.
Thanks for your help
Philippe

Posted by Zeegers on 11-08-2017 09:32
#2

It looks most promising. Any other picture, no matter how bad, available ? Please post ! Any more info ? Please post !

Theo

Posted by Philippe moniotte on 11-08-2017 10:05
#3

Thanks for your reply Theo. Now, if you ask for bad photos, I'm your man ;) (I'am having big trouble with my eyesight at the moment, and have almost given up macrophotography untill it's mended) Here is one, very bad indeed, but from a slightly different angle.
There were two individuals sitting in the high grass in a slightly shaded place. The biotope around it is generally a dry heathland, but this is in a kind of hollow.

Posted by Philippe moniotte on 11-08-2017 10:05
#4

another one

Posted by Philippe moniotte on 11-08-2017 10:08
#5

Yet another one.

Posted by Zeegers on 11-08-2017 11:56
#6

OK, so it is simply a female Eriothrix with reduced black pattern on tergites....

I misjudged the first picture

Theo

Posted by Philippe moniotte on 11-08-2017 12:02
#7

:S
Thanks Theo !
Philippe