Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae

Posted by Menko Vlaardingerbroek on 31-05-2009 12:56
#1

This fly looks to me like a tachinid, perhaps Thelaira, but is it really one? Is it possible to id it? I found it in my garden in Bilthoven (Netherlands), sitting on Aegopodium podagraria, remaining in the shade all the time.

Posted by Zeegers on 31-05-2009 15:37
#2

Any indication of size ?

Theo

Posted by Menko Vlaardingerbroek on 31-05-2009 16:28
#3

About the same size as Eristalis horticola, I think, but more slenderly built.
I also measured the leaf on the photo, which gave me approximately 12 mm.


Posted by Menko Vlaardingerbroek on 01-06-2009 21:23
#4

This is probably the same fly. Does it make an id easier?

Posted by Zeegers on 02-06-2009 18:19
#5

Well, the size did help

Thelaira nigripes


Theo

Posted by Menko Vlaardingerbroek on 03-06-2009 21:34
#6

Thank you, Theo.