Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small yellow Tachinidae
#1
29.08.2006, collected by sweeping, very small (around 2.5mm).
I managed to make just a couple of shots and then it escaped with no chance to recover it in my kitchen with patterned wallpaper around 2 a.m. (I also photographed and lost a small beetle,
Throscus sp.)
Posted by
ChrisR on 30-08-2006 10:52
#2
Looks like
Eliozeta again
#3
Many thanks Chris
- and which one then? - not a
pellucens I suppose (2/3 of arista has to be thickened) - maybe
continua ? (I think there was a longitudinal black stripe on abdomen)
Posted by
Zeegers on 30-08-2006 18:12
#4
Black is quite right.
It's a male of Clytomyia continua.
Based on the erect hairs on abdomen.
Theo Zeegers
Posted by
ChrisR on 30-08-2006 21:57
#5
Hmm, the "
Eliozeta helluo" had very erect bristles, but flat hairs. I might be looking at the wrong place but it looks like there are upright bristles - but I can't see upright hairs in this photo because most of the abdomen is out of focus
Do
Clytomyia have identical head and thorax to
Eliozeta?
#6
Thank you both Chris and Theo.
Maybe the 2nd picture will throw some more light?...