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| Trev |
Posted on 15-10-2010 04:45
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Member Location: Capricornia Region. Queensland AU Posts: 107 Joined: 24.04.07 |
Hi all, can anyone help with this one, taken in South Australia by a fellow fly enthusiast. http://www.redbub...ple/enivea Trev attached the following image:  [42.9Kb] Edited by Trev on 18-10-2010 03:10 |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 15-10-2010 05:15
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
Tachinidae, one for Chris. This time no neotropical species, but from a completely other part of the world
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 15-10-2010 10:02
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Very nice  Did you get other angles? If this was in Europe I would say that it is Hemyda but a quick look at the side of the eye should confirm whether this is related
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Trev |
Posted on 15-10-2010 12:25
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Member Location: Capricornia Region. Queensland AU Posts: 107 Joined: 24.04.07 |
Thanks for the input guys, here's a side view Chris, hope it helps.
Trev attached the following image:  [33.97Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-10-2010 09:54
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hmm, well that doesn't look like Hemyda now ... it looks more like a Cylindromyia but your tachinid fauna isn't very familiar to me so I might have to pass and wait for someone else to comment. It's definitely a phasiine tachinid, so it will be a bug parasitoid ... but I'm not sure which genera are possible there
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Trev |
Posted on 16-10-2010 21:28
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Member Location: Capricornia Region. Queensland AU Posts: 107 Joined: 24.04.07 |
Thanks Chris, that has given me a lead to delve further. |
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| Liekele Sijstermans |
Posted on 17-10-2010 11:43
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Member Location: Geldermalsen Netherlands Posts: 305 Joined: 16.04.05 |
I do not know the Australian tachinid fauna very well. But I had a look at Cantrell (1984) about Australian Phasiinae including a revision of Cylindromyiini. The specimen on the picture is Cylindromyia. To give id at species level we would need a specimen. However the specimen matches the description of C. bimacula which happens to be the most common Cylindromyia in Australia. Liekele |
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| Trev |
Posted on 18-10-2010 03:14
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Member Location: Capricornia Region. Queensland AU Posts: 107 Joined: 24.04.07 |
Thanks for that Liekele, very helpful information. |
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