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dear people am i right with tachinidae and is id possible?
pic taken mei2009 at rotterdam
uwe

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Nemoraea pellucida perhaps? :) If it really is big then that wide abdomen and relatively small head with a narrow vertex would suggest Nemoraea.

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Ernestia rudis male

It is a male and Nemoraea males are orange (females are dark).
Moreover, Nemoraea in Rotterdam would be the first in 150 years!

The pic is not sharp enough, but the third antennal segment is much longer in Nemoraea.

rudis is common here in coniferous forests.

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By the way, Rotterdam is an interesting locality for this species. Thanks


THeo

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(sigh) ... I wish I could say the same here ... the UK seems to have a very impoverished fauna :(

Nice ID though Theo - the shape and vertex fooled me because I have hardly any experience or seeing rudis here :(

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thanks to al,
ernestia seems ok, i thought about ernestia rudis but the scutellum?? i thought rudis has a darker sculettum?
is it possible that rudis has a sculettum in such a variety from yellowgold to almost black?
uwe

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Nemoraea in Rotterdam would be the first in 150 years!
I am a species hunter[only foto]
so I hope to find them here
did I found Nemoraea here In Rotterdam,
at least its yellow and i think its tachinid

thanks for your help again

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nemo2

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Thelaira sp. - hard to see the mid-tibia ad bristles but it might be solivaga if there were 3-4 large ones (or less would be nigrina) :)

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This one seems Th. nigripes (sic) to me, I see 2 main ad bristles, a smaller 3 on top, which is OK and a shadow (which is no bristle !).

To respond to Uwe: scutellum is quite red in rudis.


Theo

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thank you al
so
ernestia sp
en
thelaria nigripes cf
uwe