Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Dolichotachina caudata, Zambia
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 16-01-2012 20:59
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I'm skipping the pre-amble about how I'm probably miles off with this diagnosis, (if you really need a re-hashing, check every previous thread for an alternate version). It having been pointed out that although my last "call it a tachinid" is quite possibly a tachinid, it is unlikely to be further identified without more detailed examination(which would be difficult, as the fly did not like the flash and flew away a few photographs later), I am moving on to flies whose more distinctive colouring offers me more hope that they may be identifiable: this one, which I am calling the "go faster fly" in the absence of any real taxonomic clue as to what it is, seemed just as interested in examining me as I was in photographing it. Location: semi-cultured grassland, Chongwe District, Lusaka, Zambia. Date: 26-08-2011 (around midday) Size - not more than 8mm EDIT: Image too large, one minute; Will van Niekerk attached the following image:  [195.54Kb] Edited by Will van Niekerk on 07-02-2012 22:31 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-01-2012 21:09
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks very interesting - do you have any more angles? To be honest, I can't say for sure whether it is a tachinid, rhinophorid of sarcophagid  I'm guessing we'll never know unless you can get a specimen.
Edited by ChrisR on 16-01-2012 21:09 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 16-01-2012 21:22
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Member Location: UK Posts: 508 Joined: 16.11.11 |
I have two other pictures of the little fellow (fellowess?) - but didn't see another like it over the three months I was in the area/region/country/continent, and didn't find any drowned in the pool, so I can't currently (or within the near future) offer a specimen. Sorry.
Will van Niekerk attached the following image:  [153.75Kb] |
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 16-01-2012 21:25
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Member Location: UK Posts: 508 Joined: 16.11.11 |
Second of the two other angles (and the lowest quality, sorry) view from the front. Sorry not to have more. Will van Niekerk attached the following image:  [137.87Kb] |
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| Liekele Sijstermans |
Posted on 23-01-2012 00:43
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Member Location: Geldermalsen Netherlands Posts: 305 Joined: 16.04.05 |
Dolichotachina spec (Sarcophagidae, Miltogramminae) Liekele |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 23-01-2012 14:05
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
For the gallery, please. And, if possible, please begin to collect these fantastic flies. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 23-01-2012 15:24
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, very interesting fly
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 26-01-2012 10:19
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Member Location: UK Posts: 508 Joined: 16.11.11 |
Thanks, Liekele! Sorry for delayed response, I thought I had all my threads tracked but this one got away... Uploading to gallery as soon as I have updated the title. |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 07-02-2012 11:43
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Identfied by Thomas Pape as Dolichotachina caudata Villeneuve.
Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-02-2012 12:12
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Very nice result - many thanks to Thomas for clearing that up A really great fly ... it just shows that there is *always* something out there that can amaze and puzzle Dipterists 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 07-02-2012 22:33
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Member Location: UK Posts: 508 Joined: 16.11.11 |
Glad I could provide an enigma - and even more glad that someone solved it! Will. |
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