Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Very bristly Tachinid
#1
Hi
* locality - Fontelo's garden - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.10.13
* size - 10 mm
* habitat - public garden
* substrate - near on the ground, it was among Hedera sp. leaves.
#7
Linnaemyia ?
#8
Jorge
No idea, but the top image made me laugh
#9
it looks like a tree, Susan.
#10
The first photo shows very clearly the
setulae,
seta
(
e),[=
bristle(s)] and maybe some
spur(s) =
spine(s)?
Posted by
crex on 18-10-2007 13:26
#11
Susan R Walter wrote:
No idea, but the top image made me laugh
Yeah, that was an unorthodox view
Posted by
ChrisR on 18-10-2007 13:49
#12
Certainly a female
Linnaemyia but, after Theo's warning on this genus, I wouldn't like to say which species it was.
#13
maybe L. tesselans?
Whatever it
Linnaemyia is, this is a magnificent fly!
#14
what is the function of those many bristles and spurs in legs? It looks a little like an ancient roman chariot with metallic spurs on wheels... to cut something.
Posted by
ChrisR on 18-10-2007 14:29
#15
I'd guess it is sensory ... most bristles articulate in cups, which in turn contain a lot of nerves. But it's hard to understand exactly how the fly uses the data it gets from the bristles. Could be for sensing host movement or helping judge air-speed and direction in flight.
Posted by
Zeegers on 18-10-2007 16:56
#16
I'll stick to my own warning.
Tessellans, though, seems highly unlikely to me
Theo
#17
so will it remain for now Linnaemyia sp. ?
#18
Zeegers wrote:
I'll stick to my own warning.
Tessellans, though, seems highly unlikely to me
Theo
Theo, tell me which characters I must see to get ID species.
Posted by
Zeegers on 19-10-2007 10:13
#19
Impossible, too subtle. Sorry
Theo
#20
ok. Thanks, Theo.