Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Peteina erinaceus 1
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| hedy2411 |
Posted on 03-01-2011 23:10
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 Member Location: Zeist, Holland Posts: 5242 Joined: 20.11.09 |
...a Zophomyia temula...? Picture is made 22-6-2009 in Zeist, Holland hedy2411 attached the following image:  [114.31Kb] Edited by hedy2411 on 04-01-2011 22:02 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 04-01-2011 00:10
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Definitely not ... it looks really unusual but I am guessing that it is a sarcophagid, not a tachinid ... or a very weird-looking tachinid 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| neprisikiski |
Posted on 04-01-2011 00:34
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Member Location: Lithuania Posts: 876 Joined: 23.02.09 |
I think, Peteina erinaceus it is.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 04-01-2011 00:48
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Wow, that is a very unusual tachinid ... funnily enough I actually took a photo of one in the Moscow University Zoology museum this year:  
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| neprisikiski |
Posted on 04-01-2011 01:05
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Member Location: Lithuania Posts: 876 Joined: 23.02.09 |
Chris, is it Nyctia halterata in your photo ?
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 04-01-2011 01:11
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Now, that is a really interesting question ... it was labelled "Peteina erinaceus" in the collection and I must have photographed it because it looked unusual for a tachinid. But I didn't have the time to redetermine all of the material so I just took photos and put the specimen back. It does look like Nyctia so maybe we should ask Nikita to check the determination? I was thinking that the fly in my photo has a similarly elongate R5 and concave median vein and the abdominal bristling looked similar. I wonder if someone mistook a Nyctia for Peteina too ... or perhaps Nyctia comes out at Peteina when keyed through whichever key they used? Edited by ChrisR on 04-01-2011 01:13 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| neprisikiski |
Posted on 04-01-2011 01:34
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Member Location: Lithuania Posts: 876 Joined: 23.02.09 |
Yes, these species can be confusable for not an expert...
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 04-01-2011 16:32
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19308 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Peteina has the vertex very broad and male Nyctia very narrow. So Erikas is 1000 % [sic] correct. Otherwise: my comment is as before ( Holy **** a Peteina !!) Theo |
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