Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Small Syrphid?
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| B Oliver |
Posted on 15-09-2010 00:30
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Member Location: Salinas, CA, USA Posts: 6 Joined: 30.12.06 |
This looks like a syrphid; the dark wings make the wing veins difficult to trace. Picture taken 09/10/10 in central coastal California, Los Padres National Forest, at Lat. 36.09302, Lon. -121.41841, elevation 520 m. Oak woodland habitat near small stream. Looks like a small Syrphid, about 5 mm length.
B Oliver attached the following image:  [143.57Kb] Edited by B Oliver on 15-09-2010 00:40 |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 15-09-2010 00:48
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 Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Trichopoda pennipes (Tachinidae), at least if it was on Europe.
Edited by Rui Andrade on 15-09-2010 00:49 |
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| B Oliver |
Posted on 15-09-2010 01:05
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Member Location: Salinas, CA, USA Posts: 6 Joined: 30.12.06 |
Rui, Thanks for the sppedy and accurate reply. That answers my question. I should have guessed it was a Tachinid by the way it was acting. Brad |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 15-09-2010 09:13
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Certainly Trichopoda ... and almost certainly pennipes but they do have other Trichopoda spp. in the Nearctic 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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