Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Beast from Serra da Estrela - Zeuxia sicardi (not zernyi)
#1
Dear friends
This tachinid has puzzled me. Dunno even the genus of this one. Medium size, spotted in the same place as the Acrocera... 1500 m in this Sunday.
#9
the antennae are extremely reduced and arista is soft hairy...
Posted by
ChrisR on 22-07-2009 14:25
#10
Superficially looks like
Eriothrix but the antennae are tiny and the petiole too long. The name that is rattling around in my brain AND coincidentally the one that pops out in Tschorsnig's software key is ...
Zeuxia 
I don't know the species in your part of the world though
Posted by
Zeegers on 22-07-2009 16:29
#11
Zeuxia it is, you can see the row of proclinate orbitals.
Z. zernyi is this red, if I remember correctly, need tocheck
Theo
#12
thanks, Theo. I'm eager for the final confirmation. It seems that we have some Zeuxia!
Posted by
Zeegers on 22-07-2009 20:47
#13
Yes, I remembered it correctly: zernyi
Most Zeuxia are very obvious as such:
* appendix to bend
* topcel stalked
* both sexes with row of proclinate orbitals.
however, there are exceptions to all of this !
Theo
Posted by
ChrisR on 22-07-2009 21:16
#14
Those tiny antennae + long petiole were quite distinctive
Nice fly.
Edited by
ChrisR on 22-07-2009 21:18
#15
Today I was in the same spot and I found over 20 Zeuxia
They are rather common at 1500 m
#16
Zeuxia sicardi...
I must update the gallery.