Thread subject: Diptera.info :: A Special Tachinidae

Posted by valter on 05-12-2007 23:33
#1

Location: Algarve, Portugal

Date Photo Taken: November 24, 2007

Edited by valter on 21-12-2007 16:57

Posted by ChrisR on 06-12-2007 00:46
#2

a nice tachinid - perhaps tribe Goniini?

Posted by Andre on 06-12-2007 00:52
#3

To my opinion it's not Tachinidae, but Calliphoridae, genus Pollenia.

Posted by Kahis on 06-12-2007 10:10
#4

Naah, it is a tachinid, but I have no idea which one...

Posted by Andre on 06-12-2007 11:52
#5

What convinces you?

Posted by Susan R Walter on 06-12-2007 14:00
#6

I vote Tachinidae - Bristles on the abdomen too strong and stiffly erect. No sign of proclinate orbital setae and frontal bristles just look too neat and stiff for Pollenia.

Edited by Susan R Walter on 06-12-2007 14:00

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-12-2007 14:04
#7

Tachinidae - Goniinae.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-12-2007 14:05
#8

what the heck..?... with venation!!! M vein seems to have one another vein that doesn't reach the wing margin... unusual!

Posted by crex on 06-12-2007 14:12
#9

That extension on M1-M2 isn't very common, I think ... and as Jorge says.

Posted by crex on 06-12-2007 16:59
#10

Maybe something close to Microphthalma europaea!?

Posted by valter on 06-12-2007 18:43
#11

crex wrote:
Maybe something close to Microphthalma europaea!?


This is Microphthalma europaea... but the first Fly seems different!

farm2.static.flickr.com/1166/760117275_8172cc34a1_o.jpg

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-12-2007 18:53
#12

the last seems to be M. europaea. Not a Goniinae. Microphthalma belongs to the Tachininae subfamily.

see here photos taken by myself.
http://diptera.in...post_15075

Posted by Zeegers on 07-12-2007 10:24
#13

It's a Tachinid, it's very special, I have never seen it and I would need the specimen to tell you more (this one picture is not enough for me)


Theo

Posted by valter on 21-12-2007 16:53
#14

More 2 Photos...

i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd171/ValterJacinto/1013.jpg

i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd171/ValterJacinto/1012.jpg

Posted by Zeegers on 24-12-2007 15:33
#15

might be some Chaetogena. Still, a long shot


Theo