Thread subject: Diptera.info :: black and red fly

Posted by Margarita Auer on 01-05-2007 23:04
#1
Dear visitors,

Yesterday 30.4.07 I saw this quite big ( more than 13 mm)fly sitting on a leaf in the last sunshine in the eastern part of Austria.
But after the first photo shot it disappeared .
It was jetblack and bright red.
I have never seen such a fly before.
Can You please help me to identify.
Thank You

Margarita Auer

Posted by Tony Irwin on 01-05-2007 23:42
#2
Clitellaria ephippium (Stratiomyidae) female. Larva is found in Lasius fuliginosus nests. I don't know its status in Austria, but it is apparently extinct in Britain - now seen only in the wildest dreams of hallucinating dipterists. Sad Wow! Wow! and again Wow!

Posted by Margarita Auer on 02-05-2007 07:14
#3
Dear Tony,

Then I say Thank You and this looks also for me Super, Super, Super.
About the status in Austria I am not informed but I can try to get some informations, I will tell You then.

Best regards

Margarita

Posted by Paul Beuk on 02-05-2007 07:17
#4
Tony Irwin wrote:
Clitellaria ephippium (Stratiomyidae) female. Larva is found in Lasius fuliginosus nests. I don't know its status in Austria, but it is apparently extinct in Britain - now seen only in the wildest dreams of hallucinating dipterists. Sad Wow! Wow! and again Wow!
It was considered extinct in the Netherlands as well, but it has turned up over the past 10-15 years...