Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachinidae -> Adejeania cf. vexatrix
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| paqui |
Posted on 28-09-2010 17:30
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Member Location: Valencia (spain) Posts: 816 Joined: 02.09.05 |
This amazing fly's pic was taken by Aníbal Eleno http://www.biodiv...53303.html - México (México) - about 12mm - 26-aug.'10 There's another view but similar Thanks 
paqui attached the following image:  [44.8Kb] Edited by paqui on 29-09-2010 22:29 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 28-09-2010 18:32
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I would say that this is an Adjeania sp. ... the huge palpi sticking out the front are quite distinctive of a small group of genera Then the lack of hairs on the eyes or palpi combined with the orange body & legs rule out the other genera. Just a further guess - Adejeania vexatrix is a species found in the southern USA and Central America and it looks quite like this ... but that is purely speculative - you really need to have it confirmed by Monty Wood 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 28-09-2010 20:06
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
fascinating insect! It really looks weird.
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| paqui |
Posted on 29-09-2010 22:28
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Member Location: Valencia (spain) Posts: 816 Joined: 02.09.05 |
Thanks |
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