Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae > Hydrotaea borussica
Posted by Raimo on 05-03-2018 23:17
#1
Could the victim in the photo be a Hydrotaea borussica?
Mid Sweden July 20 2017.
Edited by Raimo on 06-03-2018 18:45
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 06-03-2018 15:02
#2
I agree, H. borussica
Posted by Raimo on 06-03-2018 18:44
#3
Thankyou Nikita.
Posted by oceanlis2000 on 09-03-2018 11:40
#4
Any idea what caught it?
Posted by John Carr on 09-03-2018 13:19
#5
Looks like family Crabronidae. Some catch flies and store them for larval wasps to eat.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 09-03-2018 18:15
#6
A typical hunter on medium-size Muscid is
Oxybelus. I observed it hunting on
Gymnodia flexa and
Musca sorbens (https://diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=3604). Thus,
H. borussica too.
Oxybelus is confirmed by expert: A. Antropov
Posted by Raimo on 09-03-2018 19:43
#7
Thanks for info on the wasp. Its probably Oxybelus uniglumis since almost all Oxybelus reported in Sweden belong to this species (and only one I have myself seen). An alternative could be O. mandibularis.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-03-2018 08:27
#8
Oxybelus uniglumis (Linnaeus, 1758) is confirmed by A. Antropov
Posted by oceanlis2000 on 13-03-2018 14:38
#9
Nice one