Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae - Siphona setosa?
Posted by tim worfolk on 10-08-2009 11:58
#1
Just back from a week in South Wales. A few nice flies on the dunes which I'm slowly working my way through. This appears to be
Siphona setosa - 4 post dc, long antenna, pair of med marg bristles on abd 1+2, reddish tegula? Only wish the photos were better.
4/8/2009; Glamorgan, Wales. Dune scrub.
Thanks
Tim
Posted by tim worfolk on 10-08-2009 11:59
#2
another angle, but even worse photo...
Tim
Posted by Zeegers on 10-08-2009 17:09
#3
I'd really need a proper lateral head shot,
antenna is long but not that long, so it does not convince me,
unless it is a female (difficult to see).
SO any more shots ?
Theo
Posted by tim worfolk on 10-08-2009 17:16
#4
No, that's the best of a bad bunch.
Tim
Posted by Zeegers on 10-08-2009 18:24
#5
Well, setosa is not common and geniculata very variable from behind, so I'm not gonna call this one
Theo
Posted by tim worfolk on 10-08-2009 20:13
#6
Thanks Theo, I appreciate your doubt and thus have all the more confidence in your certainties!
Tim
Posted by Zeegers on 10-08-2009 20:29
#7
WEll, thank you very much, that is not often you hear that.
But a scientist should at least try to question all results before accepting them.
Standard discleimar, repeated once again:
positive IDs are 95 % certain at the most, I cannot reckon with all extremely rare species and so on.
From pictures, that is,
Theo