Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Sarcophagidae? -> Linnaemya (Tachinidae)
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| Michael Becker |
Posted on 04-08-2010 04:33
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Member Location: Germany, Neuss Posts: 1268 Joined: 16.01.07 |
Hello, this fly is from last week from near Neuss (germany). It was about 12mm long. Is this a Sarcophagidae? Or a Tachinidae? Does someone have an idea about the genus? Thanks, Michael Michael Becker attached the following image:  [53.29Kb] Edited by Michael Becker on 04-08-2010 15:01 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 04-08-2010 08:10
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like Linnaemya (Tachinidae) - protruding mouth edge, densely hairy eyes & yellow basicosta. The trouble is that we won't be able to go further without a specimen because it is a dark-legged species 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Michael Becker |
Posted on 04-08-2010 15:00
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Member Location: Germany, Neuss Posts: 1268 Joined: 16.01.07 |
Thank you nevertheless for the answer. For these grey flies I am always content with the genus. Michael |
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| Jaakko |
Posted on 07-08-2010 23:12
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 Member Location: Joensuu, Finland Posts: 479 Joined: 04.08.08 |
A difficult genus, but L. tesselans is incredibly common at the moment here in Hessen (after T. fera and Phasia hemiptera). |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-08-2010 23:13
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I wish I could say the same about L.tesselans in England!  I think I have maybe 1 or 2 specimens in my collection here  Correction: 3 male specimens I caught a few years ago in a Malaise ... 1 female collected in the 1950s and donated by Nigel
Edited by ChrisR on 07-08-2010 23:14 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Jaakko |
Posted on 07-08-2010 23:37
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Member Location: Joensuu, Finland Posts: 479 Joined: 04.08.08 |
I know the feeling.. I tried to hunt Dinera carinifrons from Finland (it´s on the check-list). I spent considerable time on pastures with cattle etc. without any success. Here it is everywhere! It must breed in the dung beetles living in dog-pooh.. D. ferina is still considerably commoner, but after a while it is quite easy to pick carinifrons out from the smaller specimens of ferina on the field. It seems to start later as well. I also got another Mintho rufiventris. This time it was flying around the kitchen lamp! Still waiting for the Estheria and Dexia.. I also haven´t seen any Sturmia bella yet... strange? Most of the stuff I haven´t looked through yet, just curious with the large ones. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-08-2010 23:45
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, no S.bella here yet either ... plenty of Dinera grisescens earlier on one site ... tons of Eriothrix rufomaculata & Exorista rustica everywhere ... a few Eurithia consobrina & Phasia hemiptera ... and the best so far is Bithia spreta on the same site as I found it last year Would be nice to see a Phasia aurigera one day ... they still haven't reached us and I haven't even had any from Europe yet, despite the spread up through Europe.
Edited by ChrisR on 07-08-2010 23:46 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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