Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Is this a tachinid?

Posted by ChrisR on 15-05-2009 15:51
#1
Jari has sent me some tiny flies from Finland, which I don't think are tachinids because they don't have a subscutellum ... but I can't rule out the very small atypical tachinids without subscutellums because I have no material to compare them with. :(

first the male...
Edited by ChrisR on 15-05-2009 15:52

Posted by ChrisR on 15-05-2009 15:52
#2
now the female...

Posted by Zeegers on 17-05-2009 15:16
#3
Either Melanomyia or Anthracomyia melanoptera, depending on size and scutellar bristles (both Calliphoridae).


Theo

Posted by ChrisR on 17-05-2009 17:27
#4
Thanks ... Jari can have the "joy" of confirming those then ;)

Posted by JariF on 17-05-2009 17:34
#5
I can hardly wait ;)

Jari