Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Funny Tephritid :-)

Posted by Juergen Peters on 27-04-2007 02:11
#1
Hello!

This 5 mm fly was waving with its wings all the time - left one, right one, left one... Cool. It was sitting on a Leucanthemum vulgare yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany). I think it's a Tephritis sp., but which one?


www.foto-upload.de/diptera/070426/Tephritis_sp_on_Leucanthemum_1.jpg
www.foto-upload.de/diptera/070426/Tephritis_sp_on_Leucanthemum_2.jpg

Posted by Juergen Peters on 29-04-2007 19:03
#2
Hello!

No comment anybody?

Posted by Ben Hamers on 29-04-2007 20:29
#3
Hi J?rgen,

Considering the host plant and the wingpattern it should be T. neesii.
By the way : The T. conura-couple at your site rather looks like a Oxyna-couple to me.

Ben

Posted by Juergen Peters on 29-04-2007 20:45
#4
Hello, Ben!

Ben Hamers wrote:
Considering the host plant and the wingpattern it should be T. neesii.


Many thanks!

By the way : The T. conura-couple at your site rather looks like a Oxyna-couple to me.


Thanks again, I will have a look at it.

Posted by John Smit on 02-05-2007 08:25
#5
Hi Jurgen,

I agree with Ben, it's probably T. neesii.

John