Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae: maybe Linnaemya sp.? --> Subfamily Exoristinae, male Carcelia lucorum
Posted by Michael Stemmer on 29-03-2018 05:53
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Hello,
can someone identify this tachinid fly? With two other specimen, it hatched out of the pupa of an Arctiidae (butterfly) species, either Phragmatobis fuliginosa or Spilarctia lutea (exact determination will follow, I hope), which I found on 16. february this year. I still have the specimen, if someone is interested.
Location: Germany, Rhineland-Palatinum, 53572 Unkel, river Rhine valley, Stux hill, dry and warm habitat (grapeyards), 16. 02. 2018; the flies hatched 18. - 21. 03. 2018.
Thanks in advance,
Michael
Edited by Michael Stemmer on 04-04-2018 05:48
Posted by Michael Stemmer on 29-03-2018 05:54
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Posted by Michael Stemmer on 29-03-2018 05:54
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Posted by John Carr on 29-03-2018 13:38
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Not
Linnaemya. Typical members of tribe Ernestiini have a projecting chin and long pedicel. This is in subfamily Exoristinae.
Posted by Michael Stemmer on 30-03-2018 08:06
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Thank you, John!
Greetings from the Stux hill,
Michael
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Posted by Zeegers on 01-04-2018 10:28
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A male Carcelia lucorum, a classic parasitoid of Arctiidae.
So that makes total sense.
Theo
Posted by Michael Stemmer on 04-04-2018 05:48
#7
Hello Theo,
thanks for determination. Even the species! I never thought that this was possible.
Bernd-Otto Bennedsen determined the species of the caterpillar on lepiforum.de: Phragmatobia fuliginosa.
Greetings from the Stux hill,
Michael