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Yesterday at Sabi?anigo, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. Pre-Pyrenees. Between Atlantic and Mediterranean climate. Habitat: prairie dominates by Daucus carota, Eryngium campestre and Conyza sp. Near a small river. Size: 6-7 mm.





If someone need a view of the proboscis, I have a picture with them evaginated.

Thanks

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Very nice photos - especially #1 showing the subscutellum clearly - no doubt it is a tachinid! My guess is either an Eliozeta or Clytiomyia sp.

I wish we were having as good a September as you seem to be having in the south. I went out at the weekend and I saw no tachinids and very few interesting flies at all. The countryside in England seems to have decided it is autumn and what few flowers are still alive have few/no flies on them

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Thanks Chris! Is possible decide which of the two genus suggested is it? I wait Theo...

Here is all dry, it haven't rained in the summer, but in the mountain there are some insects as I show here.

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Theo might know - he has seen a lot more of these in mainland Europe than I have here in England. Here Clytiomyia is very very rare and Eliozeta doesn't exist at all.

In the european key the genera are split using the number of katepisternal bristles - under the wing, above the legs. The area is just visible on your last photo but it is too out of focus to count the bristles

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It looks like a special male.
Pity the thorax is out of focus.
Should be Clytiomyia, since none of the Heliozeta species fit.
But then, deadendstreet.

Theo

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Thanks Theo! At least I have the genus...

do you know the Tachina that I've posted few hours ago?