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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phasia pusilla? --> confirmed

Posted by Jann Wuebbenhorst on 20-03-2022 21:57

This was quite numerous in the first days of June 2021. Dry nutrient-poor meadow and wasteland, 02.06.2021 (Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany)

Jann

Edited by Jann Wuebbenhorst on 03-11-2022 21:23

Posted by Jann Wuebbenhorst on 20-03-2022 21:57

2nd

Posted by Jann Wuebbenhorst on 20-03-2022 21:59

3rd

Posted by guplox on 21-03-2022 01:52

I photographed a similar-looking Tachinidae in late June last year in east China, which I identify to the genus level as Phasia.

Posted by Zeegers on 21-03-2022 07:47

please don’t post different specimens in one thread, it gets a mess rapidly (like here).
The Luneburg specimen is Ph. cf. pusilla. If you can check whether the halter is yellow or dark, that would help.

The Chinese one is clearly not Phasia, but Leucostoma or Calyptromyia.

Theo

Posted by guplox on 21-03-2022 07:56

Thank you Theo for the correction! I simply mistook my specimen for a Phasia. You are absolutely right in pointing out that posting images of different specimens would cause a mess sooner or later. I'll refrain from doing that again! Thank you anyway.

Posted by Jann Wuebbenhorst on 21-03-2022 21:26

The halteres are dark, so that confirms pusilla, I think.

Posted by Zeegers on 22-03-2022 07:39

yes, I agree. as was expected.

Theo

Posted by Jann Wuebbenhorst on 22-03-2022 17:29

Thank you Theo!