Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Blue Tachinid => Dufouria sp
Posted by tristram on 17-05-2011 19:13
#1
Photographed in a field near Reading, UK, on 2011-05-16. I suspect it might be a
Melinda sp. Can anyone confirm or correct this?
Edited by tristram on 17-05-2011 20:58
Posted by tristram on 17-05-2011 19:14
#2
And from another angle:
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 17-05-2011 20:12
#3
With these hairy eyes, never a calliphorid !
My guess is
Dufouria, Tachinidae.
Posted by tristram on 17-05-2011 20:32
#4
Thanks Stephane. I will change the title to attract the Tachinid specialists.
Posted by ChrisR on 17-05-2011 20:39
#5
Yes, I agree - it looks to me like the ones that I have been calling
Dufouria (
chalybeata?) recently:
EDIT: this one was caught a few miles from Reading, at Hartslock reserve ;)
Edited by ChrisR on 17-05-2011 20:40
Posted by tristram on 17-05-2011 20:57
#6
Yes that looks a match. Mine was in a field below Chazey Wood which is 5 or 6km from Hartslock, eastwards along the Thames path.