Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Large Australian Sarcophagidae.
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 18-04-2010 21:11
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 Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
This attractive fly is a regular catch in my malaise trap. Townsville, Australia. Genera? Graeme Cocks attached the following image:  [43.17Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 18-04-2010 21:17
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
That's a real beaut  Do you get many tachinids in the Malaise and have you tried keying them using Crosskey? 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 18-04-2010 21:27
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
No, I am not aware of Crosskey? Is it a tachanid not a sarcophagid? |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 18-04-2010 21:27
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 Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Beautiful beast. Looks like Sarcophaga aurifrons (not an ID, not even a proposition).
Stephane. |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 18-04-2010 21:31
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks Stephane, Even if you are not sure it's better than no name at all. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 18-04-2010 21:51
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
As Stephane says, it is certainly a sarco - and a really attractively marked one. I was just wondering if you get many tachinids and if you do anything with them - Malaise traps usually catch quite a lot. There is a key to genera, by a chap called Crosskey, but I haven't seen enough specimens to know if it is much good
Edited by ChrisR on 18-04-2010 21:52 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 18-04-2010 21:59
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Yes tachinids are well represented in the malaise catch. I'm a contributor to the iBOL project and all interesting stuff from the trap is sent to them for DNA sequencing. The fly ends up at the Australian Museum. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 18-04-2010 22:42
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
That's interesting stuff - would be good to see the results some time ... DNA sequencing of tachinids has been done before but the results are often fairly confused, I think
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 18-04-2010 23:03
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
It's early days for the Diptera on BOLD, and especially my stuff as I'm pretty sure a lot will be incorrectly id'd. This doesn't matter at this stage, Im concentrating more on volume of individuals. So I can't make a comment yet on the results for Tachinidae. |
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