Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae fly -1. picture

Posted by Margarita Auer on 19-04-2007 19:58
#1
Dear members,
Yesterday I saw this Tachinidae fly in the garden (eastern part of Austria).
Size app. 10mm
Is it possible to tell more about it?

Thank You and best regards

Margarita Auer

Posted by Margarita Auer on 19-04-2007 20:00
#2
and this is another picture from this fly.

Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-04-2007 12:53
#3
Is this maybe one of those small, fiendishly difficult Sarcophaga (Sarcophaga) spp? It seems to have great big camel feet ie the oversized pulvilli of Sarcophagidae.

Posted by ChrisR on 20-04-2007 13:36
#4
Yeah, I'd like to think it is a dexiine tachinid, but I am not sure myself - it could just be a small sarcophagid, as you say Smile

Posted by Zeegers on 20-04-2007 18:47
#5
The first thing to check once a very Muscid-like Tachinid is encountered is Macquartia grisia, especially when the eyes are very close (males: never so in Sarcophagidae !).
And this seems to me a Macquartia, however, whether it is grisea I cannot be sure.

Theo Zeegers

Posted by Margarita Auer on 21-04-2007 08:33
#6
Thanks to all of You- Susan, Chris and Theo helping me to determinate this fly.

Best regards and a nice weekend

Margarita

Posted by Margarita Auer on 21-04-2007 08:44
#7
I can confirm that a lot of Chrysolina fastuosa leaf beetles live here.

Margarita