Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Tachinidae - Cylindromyia
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 08-04-2014 22:09
#1
Can anyone suggest a species?
Netted. Townsville, Queensland.
The second picture is a lateral view of another individual.
Edited by Graeme Cocks on 09-04-2014 23:32
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 08-04-2014 22:10
#2
lateral view of a second fly.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 08-04-2014 23:05
#3
Looks very bristly for a syrphid - I wonder whether this might be a tachinid - something like
Saralba ocypteroides
Edited by Tony Irwin on 08-04-2014 23:08
Posted by John Carr on 08-04-2014 23:06
#4
Tachinidae. It looks superficially like some Northern Hemisphere Phasiinae, e.g.
Cylindromyia.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 09-04-2014 01:49
#5
Thanks Tony and John. Yep mistook a wing fold for a vena spura. Tachinidae looks good.
Posted by Zeegers on 09-04-2014 08:05
#6
I don't think it is Phasiinae, but rather Blondeliini.
A golden yellow Trigonospila, if such a thing exists...
Theo
Posted by Tony Irwin on 09-04-2014 15:44
#7
If you have access to
Paramonov, S. J., 1956: A review of the Australian species of Cylindromyia Meigen and Saralba Walker Tachinidae Diptera. Australian Journal of Zoology, 4: 358-375
you may get a species det.
But I'm nervous now, 'cos Theo has a habit of pointing out my errors! :S
Posted by Zeegers on 09-04-2014 16:46
#8
Nasty habit
Sorry Tony
Theo
Posted by Tony Irwin on 09-04-2014 18:41
#9
No, good habit
No apologies necessary
|t
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 09-04-2014 20:52
#10
Thanks Tony and Zeegers. No I don't have access to that paper but I note the reference to Cylindromyia.
Posted by Tony Irwin on 09-04-2014 21:58
#11
I'll be amazed if it turns out to be anything other than
Saralba, but then, being amazed most days is what's great about studying Diptera! :D