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 Is it a Tachinid fly?
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| wilde |
Posted on 17-02-2013 22:51
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Member Location: Koudekerke, Netherlands Posts: 176 Joined: 13.09.06 |
I tried to breed the pupa of a small tortoiseshell, but I got a fly larva. It became a pupa and the fly seems to be a Tachinid fly, but I'm not sure. It measures 10 mm. If indeed Tachinid, which species?
wilde attached the following image:  [76.27Kb] Edited by wilde on 17-02-2013 22:58 Albert de Wilde |
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| wilde |
Posted on 17-02-2013 22:52
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Member Location: Koudekerke, Netherlands Posts: 176 Joined: 13.09.06 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 17-02-2013 23:02
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Definitely a tachinid but not sure which, from these photos - not a very distinctive species. The bristles have also been knocked about quite a lot.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| wilde |
Posted on 18-02-2013 12:00
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Member Location: Koudekerke, Netherlands Posts: 176 Joined: 13.09.06 |
Thanks Chris. I think it could be Sturmia bella. It should have a reddish hind edge on the scutellum, but this specimen is already dead for some time and colours are different then. Could the hind leg be useful? This species was also in my garden in May 2011. http://www.dipter...d_id=38420 wilde attached the following image:  [78.67Kb] Edited by wilde on 18-02-2013 13:24 Albert de Wilde |
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