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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Shining Tachinidae

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 18-05-2006 16:15

Moscow, park, 18 may, 6-6,5mm, one of a kind.
Is it Gymnochaeta viridis?

Posted by Robert Nash on 18-05-2006 16:29

Nikita - this looks like viridis but ours are a different and very distinctive shade of green (lighter) at least when alive. I am sure Chris (Raper) would know. Robert

Edited by Robert Nash on 18-05-2006 16:48

Posted by Zeegers on 18-05-2006 16:49

It is - indeed - a female Gymnochaeta viridis

Theo Zeegers

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 18-05-2006 18:17

Thank you Theo and Robert.
In this case my doubts were also due small size of fly.
Nikita

Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-05-2006 16:48

So - I think this will be the same? 10mm, from east London cemetery park, 29 April 2006.

Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-05-2006 16:49

Another view

Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-05-2006 16:50

And another

Posted by Zeegers on 22-05-2006 20:14

Hi Susan,

You're right, that's the same species: Gymnochaeta viridis

Posted by Susan R Walter on 23-05-2006 09:13

Thanks Theo. They are a particularly beautiful rich emerald colour, I think.

Posted by lweit on 23-05-2006 20:37

#10

I think that the name is Gymnocheta viridis (Fall?n) (dixit FE) ?
Louis