Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae - Thelaira nigripes
Posted by tim worfolk on 29-07-2009 06:49
#1
Rather more orange on abdomen than the
Thelaira nigripes I'm used to - quite regular locally over the last month or two. I know this is an unreliable character so what about the ad bristles on tibia 2, I think I can just about see a ve as well? I guess it would help if I'd managed better photos!
29/7/2009; Devon, England.
Thanks
Tim
Edited by tim worfolk on 29-07-2009 16:48
Posted by tim worfolk on 29-07-2009 06:51
#2
Probably different fly. Same place, same time.
Posted by ChrisR on 29-07-2009 09:11
#3
I think it's another
T.nigripes - from the 2 long ad. The orange side patches are very variable in all species so they are hardly even a good secondary feature. :) They are also (in my experience) much commoner than
T.solivaga.
Posted by tim worfolk on 29-07-2009 09:17
#4
Thanks Chris, I'm sure you're right.
Tim
Posted by Zeegers on 29-07-2009 15:19
#5
I agree, twice male Th. nigripes.
Thelaira nigripes tends to be quite variable in abdominal pattern.
Theo
Posted by tim worfolk on 29-07-2009 16:47
#6
Thanks Theo. In fact abdominal pattern would appear to be so variable as to be useless.
Tim