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 [Gonia sp] On "herbe de Provence", a tachinid?
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| HDumas |
Posted on 19-04-2010 17:38
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Member Location: Southern France Posts: 189 Joined: 24.04.09 |
Hello, Is it a Tachinid, feeding on Thymus?   Ca 9 mm; 15.IV.2010; Southern France Edited by HDumas on 14-06-2012 18:05 Greetings from Provence |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 19-04-2010 18:54
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes - Gonia sp. 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| HDumas |
Posted on 19-04-2010 19:18
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Member Location: Southern France Posts: 189 Joined: 24.04.09 |
Thank you Chris
Greetings from Provence |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 19-04-2010 20:02
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Gonia picea? |
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| HDumas |
Posted on 19-04-2010 21:31
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Member Location: Southern France Posts: 189 Joined: 24.04.09 |
I found Coleoptera and Lepidoptera as hosts for american Gonia species. Is it the same for european species? Each Gonia species is parasitoid of one host species or several? Greetings from Provence |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 19-04-2010 21:59
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I think one of the problems is that they are not very common - especially here in the north (I have never caught one), where there are fewer large areas of good habitat. Rearing records seem to be few and far-between 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 21-04-2010 20:23
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19268 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Gonia is very common in the south. Its hosts are earthliving caterpillars of Noctuidae, such as Cerapteryx graminis Theo |
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| HDumas |
Posted on 24-04-2010 11:33
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Member Location: Southern France Posts: 189 Joined: 24.04.09 |
Thank you both @ Chris: Sorry, I've no time now for catching flies, but I keep it in mind. Greetings from Provence |
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