Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 perhaps Muscidae from Ecuador
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| Rupert Huber |
Posted on 19-10-2009 19:20
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 Member Location: Germany / South-East Bavaria Posts: 764 Joined: 19.07.07 |
Hello to all! Again the situation that I can't decide between Muscidae, Anthomyiidae and Fanniidae. About 1cm. 19.8.2009, Ecuador, Prov. Tungurahua, Baņos, about 1800m asl Rupert Huber attached the following image:  [188.57Kb] Best greetings Rupert |
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| uwe |
Posted on 19-10-2009 19:31
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 Member Location: rotterdam Posts: 218 Joined: 11.10.08 |
Hi, I guess Tachinidae. Uwe |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 19-10-2009 19:59
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hmm, I am guessing tachinid too - from the long bristles on the abdomen 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Rupert Huber |
Posted on 22-10-2009 08:18
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Member Location: Germany / South-East Bavaria Posts: 764 Joined: 19.07.07 |
Thanks both! Chris, if you guess it's a Tachinid, it must be one (#3 from Baņos) Or is it really only a guess? There are Muscids with hairy abdomens, too, as well as naked Tachinids (Gymnosoma). Best greetings Rupert |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-10-2009 09:31
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Well, catch me one next time you are there and I will tell you for sure ... 100%   But seriously, I don't know the neotropical fauna but if that landed on a flower infront of me in England then I would think it was a tachinid. The median vein is bent (but also happens in some muscids) but the general shape and those long, straight bristles on the abdomen really shout "Tachinidae" to me. Although some tachinids don't have bristles (the phasiines) and families like Sarcophagidae do have strong bristles, this one doesn't look like any of the alternatives so I am just left with Tachinidae ... but I still might be wrong and without a specimen I don't think we will know for sure
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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