Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae ex pupa

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-05-2006 06:37
#1
Emerged on May 01, 2006.
Size around 5mm.
I can't tell the host's name, my hibernation containers are rather messy, and, besides, there are some separate puparia, too.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-05-2006 06:38
#2
There's an additional image.

Posted by ChrisR on 03-05-2006 09:59
#3
Certainly a tachinid fly and they're very nice photos but if only if could see the apical scutellars better... Angry Nevermind - I'll take an educated guess (based on the UK key) at Bactromyia aurulenta. Did you have any pupae of lycaenid butterflies? My next best alternative would be Lydella sp. Smile

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-05-2006 10:43
#4
Thanks a lot Chris,
No better views of the area you need, sorry...
And definitely no Lycaenidae pupae, with quite a few Rhopalocera pupae at all.

Posted by ChrisR on 03-05-2006 13:29
#5
Hmmm, looks like it needs Theo then Smile

Posted by Zeegers on 03-05-2006 17:16
#6
No, you don't

Bactromyia aurulenta is bull's eye.

It is a polyphagous species, however, frequently reared from Yponomeuta.
Any chance there was Yponomeuta in the cage ?


Theo

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 03-05-2006 20:40
#7
No Yponomeuta, a few Microlepidoptera pupae collected in early spring. By the way, I think that Yponomeuta hibernate as first instar larvae.

Posted by Zeegers on 04-05-2006 20:36
#8
As said, Bactromyia is polyphagous and can easily have been reared from another Micro.
So no contradiction here.

Thanks for the feedback


Theo