Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachinid - Siphona
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| Sandy |
Posted on 04-10-2010 07:23
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Member Location: South-east Scotland Posts: 132 Joined: 27.07.07 |
These flies were photographed on watercress. They remind me of very small tachinids. Note the thin horizontal proboscis. Can anyone help identify this fly species? Sandy Sandy attached the following image:  [98.3Kb] Edited by Sandy on 05-10-2010 08:12 |
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| Sandy |
Posted on 04-10-2010 07:24
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Member Location: South-east Scotland Posts: 132 Joined: 27.07.07 |
And this one.
Sandy attached the following image:  [97.42Kb] |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 04-10-2010 07:52
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
Looks like a Siphona to me. OMG, the first time I am making a guess for a Tachinid genus.
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 04-10-2010 09:03
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yeah, it's a bit dark in colour but if it has a proboscis like that then it can only be Siphona - possibly geniculata 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Sandy |
Posted on 05-10-2010 08:02
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Member Location: South-east Scotland Posts: 132 Joined: 27.07.07 |
Thanks Ruud and Chris Good tip worth remembering on the shape of Siphona's proboscis. |
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