Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae ID => Pales pavida

Posted by tristram on 08-06-2012 19:30
#1

I think this Pales pavida.
Is this correct?

Photos taken in Reading, UK, on 2012-06-04.

Edited by tristram on 09-06-2012 23:45

Posted by tristram on 08-06-2012 19:31
#2

From the front:

Posted by tristram on 08-06-2012 19:32
#3

And a better view of the back:

Posted by ChrisR on 08-06-2012 22:53
#4

I don't see any bristles on the facial ridges so it shouldn't be Pales ... but it might be something like Phryxe ... did you get a specimen?

Posted by tristram on 08-06-2012 23:06
#5

No specimen I'm afraid. Thanks anyway.

Posted by Zeegers on 09-06-2012 10:24
#6

must be a trick of the picture: it is a female Pales pavida
(colouration of abdomen and scutellum, shape of calypter, only 1 reclinate orbital !!)


Theo

Posted by tristram on 09-06-2012 22:06
#7

Thank you Theo!

Posted by ChrisR on 10-06-2012 11:31
#8

Strange ... and they say the camera never lies! ;)