Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Parasitic fly
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| Lavendel |
Posted on 21-04-2012 19:56
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Hi, Can anyone help me identify this parasitic fly following a grasshopper. Shot on a metal pipe through dry grassland near dutch border in Belgium (Doel). Thanks! Lavendel attached the following image:  [165.23Kb] Edited by Lavendel on 21-04-2012 19:59 Kind regards, Sandra |
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| Lavendel |
Posted on 21-04-2012 20:02
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Member Location: The Netherlands Posts: 352 Joined: 10.11.07 |
with the grasshopper
Lavendel attached the following image:  [90.66Kb] Kind regards, Sandra |
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| Lavendel |
Posted on 21-04-2012 20:03
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side view
Lavendel attached the following image:  [164.5Kb] Kind regards, Sandra |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 21-04-2012 20:04
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
As far as I know, the only muscoid that attacks grasshoppers is Therobia leonidei ... but that doesn't look quite right. I will have to get my specimen out to check - did you take a specimen?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 21-04-2012 20:11
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I think it is Blaesoxipha, Sarcophagidae.
Stephane. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 21-04-2012 20:12
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Ahhhh, that would explain a few things - do they go for Orthoptera? We get them quite rarely in my region 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 21-04-2012 20:18
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Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Yes, they do.
Stephane. |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 22-04-2012 00:51
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ChrisR wrote: As far as I know, the only muscoid that attacks grasshoppers is Therobia leonidei Also Acridomyia. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-04-2012 08:38
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Interesting - thanks guys - I do tend to be a bit too tachinid-focused and it's nice to hear that other groups have similar life strategies! 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Lavendel |
Posted on 22-04-2012 09:31
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Member Location: The Netherlands Posts: 352 Joined: 10.11.07 |
Thank you all! Quit interresting to see what kind of flies are parasitic. And IŽam sorry Chris I usualy do not collect, I just shoot ;-) Kind regards, Sandra |
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