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Tachinidae - Peleteria sp.
jorgemotalmeida
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Posted on 03-10-2007 12:55
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Hi


* locality - Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL
* date - 2007.10.02
* size - 9 mm (big fly)
* habitat - woodland
* substrate - near Mentha sp.
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Peleteria ... note the 2 strong bristles on the face, between the eyes and the vibrissae Smile
 
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how can we know the possible species? What are the characters I must seek for?
 
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I have never seen them here in the UK so I am not the best to ask, but Theo might know. I have had a look in the Central European key and it keys to Peleteria varia (to which it bears a striking similarity in general appearance too!) but there is always a caveat that you are outside the range of the key and you might/probably have other species to consider Smile
 
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Hi Chris

Could you please post the bibliographic reference of the Central Europe key that you mention? Thanks

Miquel
 
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Hi Miquel

It is:

Tschorsnig, H.P. and B. Herting. 1994. Die Raupenfliegen (Diptera: Tachinidae) Mitteleuropas: Bestimmungstabellen und Angaben zur Verbreitung und ?kologie der einzelnen Arten. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde. Serie A (Biologie) 506, 170 pp.


But I can do better than that - here is a link to a page on my site where you can download the English translation & figures: http://tachinidae...nloads.php The file is passworded but the password is just "password"

Let me know how you get on with it Smile

Chris R.
 
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Interesting, but I get "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged" on both zip files Sad
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Strange, I just tried it here and it works fine Shock If you still have problems then just PM me and give me your email address and I will email them to you Smile
 
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OK, I'll try at home later tonight first. The download seemed fine, but the files didn't open ...
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It worked better from home ... Cool
 
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Many many thanks! It is fantastic to make available such a useful tool!

Miquel
 
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Jorge

Can you please upload your second image to the gallery? Or to the new overviews forum maybe - then people can add suitable Nowickia, etc, as they come in. Your photo shows the Peletaria facial bristles really clearly.
Susan
 
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I will do that, Susan. I also have lots of photos to upload . Smile
I'm glad I found a new family today! Smile be tunned. Wink it is the most spectacular fly I saw this year so far. Wink
 
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Theo, I think that in this case it is not easy to know the species.. right? Smile
Thank you!
 
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