Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Mating Tachini
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| Robert Heemskerk |
Posted on 10-04-2010 00:45
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 Member Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Posts: 2082 Joined: 17.10.05 |
hi flyforum, You will always see, you wanna go home and you're camera-equipment is already in your bag. And then you see.., a couple Tahini mating on your bag  !!!!Alright!!, let start again.. After some time, I took this mating Tachini and they didn't wanna leave my bag at all! Now I am wondering what kind of species this Tachini is? IF needed, I got them also dorsal or a detail of the headparts? greeting Robert, Robert Heemskerk attached the following image:  [123.77Kb] Greeting, Robert Heemskerk ---- WWW: http://robertheem...ndedag.htm --- |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 10-04-2010 00:48
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5269 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Aye....It's a hard life Robert... Roger |
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| Jaakko |
Posted on 11-04-2010 20:26
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 Member Location: Joensuu, Finland Posts: 479 Joined: 04.08.08 |
Cyzenis albicans |
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| Robert Heemskerk |
Posted on 11-04-2010 23:25
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Member Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Posts: 2082 Joined: 17.10.05 |
hi Jaakko, Thanks for posting! greeting Robert Greeting, Robert Heemskerk ---- WWW: http://robertheem...ndedag.htm --- |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 12-04-2010 09:16
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
The early-season flight period and yellowish dusting seems quite distinctive ... it's another one that I find quite rarely here in the UK but I don't often collect near large blocks of woodland so maybe that's the reason?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Robert Heemskerk |
Posted on 12-04-2010 12:17
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Member Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands Posts: 2082 Joined: 17.10.05 |
Hereby a close-up from the head thankx for your addition Chris 
Robert Heemskerk attached the following image:  [131.42Kb] Edited by Robert Heemskerk on 12-04-2010 12:17 Greeting, Robert Heemskerk ---- WWW: http://robertheem...ndedag.htm --- |
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| Jaakko |
Posted on 12-04-2010 13:50
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Member Location: Joensuu, Finland Posts: 479 Joined: 04.08.08 |
Strange thing is that they are not this yellow here, much more silverish! Face profile and stubby appearance are quite revealing for this genus. I don't see them every year, but sometimes they can be quite numerous. Try looking for sap runs on birches! C. jucunda is also fairly common but usually less numerous here. These have striped butt that makes them possible to identify even on field! |
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