Thread subject: Diptera.info :: A tachinid for Theo :o)

Posted by ChrisR on 20-05-2006 20:21
#1
South Oxfordshire, England - 20/5/2006 - about 7mm. I think this is a Phryxe nemea - but just thought I'd get it confirmed Smile

Posted by ChrisR on 20-05-2006 20:21
#2
and another angle...

Posted by shar on 21-05-2006 08:11
#3
Beautifull pictures! Pfft

gr,
Shar

Posted by ChrisR on 21-05-2006 18:54
#4
Thx - not bad for a hand-held compact camera Smile

Update: I've changed my mind - I now think it is Aplomyia confinis ... Grin

Posted by Zeegers on 22-05-2006 20:08
#5
Hi Chris,


From what I can see, esp. second picture, I would have guessed...
female Aplomyia confinis. So we agree. It is definitely not Phryxe nemea and it doesn't look Phryxe-like.
So Aplomyia confinis.
Not so common species.


Theo Zeegers

Posted by ChrisR on 22-05-2006 21:21
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Hi Theo, Thanks for confirming that - I thought Phryxe because of the hairy eyes, orange scutellum and crossed&lifted apicals. But I changed my ID because I discovered I had taken a specimen a few days earlier. After running it through Belshaw it came out to Aplomyia and it matched 4 other specimens in my collection from the same site. Grin

The host works for the site too - lots of nice Lycaenids there (P.icarus, L.coridon, L.bellargus, C.rubi). We have Cadurciella tritaeniata there too. Grin
Edited by ChrisR on 22-05-2006 21:25