Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Female Ernestia puparum?

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 25-04-2009 19:56
#1

Is this a female Ernestia puparum, or am I mistaking? Photographed today, at the edge of a small forest at Heukelum, Netherlands.

Posted by ChrisR on 25-04-2009 23:03
#2

I don't think so - no projecting mouth edge and it just looks wrong. With that shaded rm vein it should be distinctive but it isn't something I see here :)

Posted by Zeegers on 26-04-2009 08:34
#3

Any indication of size ?

Theo

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 26-04-2009 08:41
#4

Not very large for a tachinid, the size of Ernestia I would say, perhaps even smaller.

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 27-04-2009 16:12
#5

Is that info of any use, or is this a hopeless case? :|

Posted by Zeegers on 27-04-2009 21:03
#6

You are giving paradoxal information. An Ernestia is large for a Tachinid, in my book, More than 10 mm. or about 15 mm, or less than 7 mm. would help.

I think you are right with female puparum.

Theo

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 28-04-2009 18:51
#7

I admit I'm not very good at estimating size, but I thought this fly and the only other Ernestia I have seen were not very large. But in both cases there was no other fly I could compare it with, so I'm probably wrong.

Thanks for your response, Theo!