Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae ID => Eurithia anthophila
Posted by tristram on 13-08-2012 00:01
#1
Found dead on a flower in a field near Reading, UK, on 2012-08-12.
I think this might be
Panzeria laevigata =
Ernestia laevigata.
Is this correct?
Edited by tristram on 17-08-2012 21:19
Posted by tristram on 13-08-2012 00:02
#2
Another angle:
Posted by tristram on 13-08-2012 00:02
#3
And another:
Posted by ChrisR on 13-08-2012 07:44
#4
Looks like Eurithia anthophila to me, from the very shiny tergite5 :)
Saw one myself (first of the year) over at the Warburg reserve, near Henley.
Edited by ChrisR on 13-08-2012 07:45
Posted by neprisikiski on 13-08-2012 07:45
#5
The shining tergite 5 indicates
Eurithia anthophila,
Ernestia laevigata lacking apical scutellar setae, by the way..
Posted by tristram on 15-08-2012 13:14
#6
Thank you Chris and Erikas. Tachinids are
hard!
Posted by Zeegers on 17-08-2012 20:21
#7
Well laevigata is a spring species.
Anthophila is your first option in August (in Western Europe)
Theo