Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae fly

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-08-2006 21:10
#1
Spectacular fly.
Photo taken on 6th August 2006 in Silgueiros - VISEU



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Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 06-08-2006 23:59
#2
anothe rphoto:


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Posted by ChrisR on 07-08-2006 00:36
#3
Definitely a tachinid and as an educated guess I'd say Nemoraea pellucida ... but leave it for Theo to say if I am right Grin
Edited by ChrisR on 07-08-2006 00:37

Posted by Zeegers on 07-08-2006 10:45
#4
I agree with you both !
Nemoraea pellucide (male, the female is completely black !)
spectacular fly indeed.


Theo

Posted by ChrisR on 08-08-2006 21:34
#5
My guess was based on the fact that the only one I ever saw was dead on a tarmac road in the south of France - so it looked remarkably like the above photos!! Grin

Posted by Zeegers on 10-08-2006 21:26
#6
Well, if you can ID flies you never saw (Lecanipa), this one must have been easy then, Chris ?

Theo

Posted by ChrisR on 10-08-2006 22:40
#7
This was a doddle ... after Lecanipa and that Eliozeta Grin