Thread subject: Diptera.info :: A fly of march

Posted by pat_der2003 on 20-10-2007 11:35
#1
loire atlantique, France, march 27 2007.

any idea ?

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 20-10-2007 11:58
#2
Tachinidae - Linnaemyia sp. (?)

Posted by ChrisR on 20-10-2007 16:42
#3
No idea about size ... but Ernestia puparum might fit for the date and the hairy eyes but it doesn't look much like specimens I have seen.
Edited by ChrisR on 20-10-2007 16:43

Posted by Zeegers on 20-10-2007 17:36
#4
Phryno vetula, common early spring species.

Theo

Posted by ChrisR on 20-10-2007 18:30
#5
Pretty rare here in the UK - I have never seen one in the wild, though I have had specimens donated from Malaise traps. Sad

Posted by pat_der2003 on 21-10-2007 18:00
#6
thank you !! Wink

this specimen was shot in a garden near a wood.