Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae or Sarcophagidae ?

Posted by ChrisR on 18-05-2007 18:58
#5

Some tachinids have a hairy arista too ... but really splitting the calyptrates to family level is done on a combination of features and most of the definitive features (eg. subscutellum) are not very clear in the field. You can use rules-of-thumb but really a lot of it depends on just knowing roughly what each family looks like :) There's no substitute for experience ;)