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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Our town park: Fannia (?) and Tachinidae

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2006 23:20

July 29, 2006.
Size 3.5-4mm.

Edited by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2006 23:32

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2006 23:21

The head.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2006 23:22

Is that one of the same kind?

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2006 23:24

Size 12mm. Maybe Eurithia? But wing venation and head are different from Eurithia species that I photographed earlier.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2006 23:25

Another side.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2006 23:26

A dorsal view.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2006 23:27

The head.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 30-07-2006 23:28

Unfortunately it's a female (as far as I can see), yet maybe this picture might help somehow...

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 31-07-2006 00:43

Hi Dima.
1. I agree with Fannia.
2. I don't agree with Eurithia. I think it is some Dexiini.
My best guess as result of an hour attempts to ID is Billaea pectinata.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 31-07-2006 07:34

#10

Thanks Nikita - I appreciate your effort

Posted by Zeegers on 31-07-2006 09:03

#11

Very nice pictures !
The Tachinid looks like a Dexiini, with the short antenna and very high jowls (gena).
It is, however, Microphthalma europaea, in a different subfamily.
The resemblance is, however, striking.
There are two of those: Microphthalma and Dexiosoma.
Both have a long appendix in the wing to the bend of vein M, which is unusually in Dexiini (though it does occur, for instance in Zeuxia).

Theo Zeegers

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 31-07-2006 09:53

#12

Thanks a lot Theo