Thread subject: Diptera.info :: 5mm with red eyes

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 13-06-2005 03:52
#1
Found this small fly on wild parsnip - 5mm. Any ideas?
Thanks!
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0390-1.jpg
~Bruce

BTW, if anyone is interested in giant ichneumon wasps, I have some great photos of the females ovipositing at:
http://www.cirrus...sa_fem.htm

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 13-06-2005 03:53
#2
and..
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0390-2.jpg

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 13-06-2005 03:54
#3
and
www.diptera.info/forim/5-0390-3.jpg

Posted by ChrisR on 14-06-2005 12:29
#4
Definitely Tachinidae... almost certainly genus Gymnosoma... but can't be 100% sure beyond that - i am no expert on the north America fauna Smile

Nice photos though Grin

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 15-06-2005 23:12
#5
I'm always happy with a genus!

Posted by Zeegers on 18-06-2005 20:49
#6
It's not Gymnosoma, but the closely allied genus Gymnoclytia.
Differences with Gymnosoma:
Abdomen less global (flatter), with distinct sutures between tergites, scutellum with apical.

Also sprach Monty Wood in the Manual of Nearctic Diptera (the new world specialist).

Gymnoclytia is also strictly new world.

Theo Zeegers

Posted by Bruce Marlin on 17-07-2005 04:41
#7
Thank you, Theo.
I had forgotten this entry until now! (July)