Thread subject: Diptera.info :: UK Tachinid for ID => Melanomyia nana
Posted by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 14:55
#1
I think this might be Gastrolepta anthracina, but I'm not at all sure.
Please help.
Found on 1 July 2014 on a Fuchsia bush in the garden, here in Ipswich, Suffolk, TM166450. Body length about 4mm.
Regards,
Martin
Edited by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 17:41
Posted by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 14:56
#2
side view
Posted by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 14:56
#3
Back of thorax
Posted by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 14:57
#4
another side view
Posted by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 14:58
#5
head close-up
Posted by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 14:59
#6
face
Posted by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 15:00
#7
back of abdomen
Posted by Zeegers on 11-07-2014 16:59
#8
Melanomyia nana (Calliphoridae)
Theo
Posted by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 17:41
#9
Aaah! Thanks Theo. I thought it didn't look quite right for Gastrolepta, but didn't know where to look for a better match.
Best wishes,
Martin
Posted by ChrisR on 11-07-2014 18:54
#10
Yeah, no subscutellum so it can't be a tachinid ... (true 99% of the time) ;)
Posted by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 21:52
#11
Is it
Melanomyia nana or
Melanomya nana?
Posted by Zeegers on 12-07-2014 08:11
#12
I always write ' myia', no matter what Rondani or the taxonomic police tells me to do.
Mistakes are there to be corrected in science, in my opinion.
See (very ) old threads on this topic for a ful comment
Theo
Posted by ValerioW on 12-07-2014 08:43
#13
Zeegers wrote:
I always write ' myia', no matter what Rondani or the taxonomic police tells me to do.
Mistakes are there to be corrected in science, in my opinion.
See (very ) old threads on this topic for a ful comment
Theo
There're many flies with this "typo" (was really a typo? Wasn't it just sign of ignorance about ancient greek?), in different families (I recently found one, but cannot remember if was a soldierfly or a muscid). Dunno if most of us know it, but the reason why "mya" is wrong is because "mya" is supposed to stay for "fly" in greek, that is actually written "μυῖα" (read: myia...ignore the circumlfex accent). So "mya" is wrong!