Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phorinia aurifrons cf, Tachinidae, May 2009, Hungary

Posted by Xespok on 01-02-2010 18:22
#1

Some kind of Exorista sp?

Edited by Xespok on 06-02-2010 18:42

Posted by Xespok on 01-02-2010 18:23
#2

Only one other shot, slightly different.

Posted by ChrisR on 01-02-2010 20:55
#3

That would be my first guess from the facial dusting & bristles, plus the shadow fold on the median vein. But the thoracic dusting looks interesting - it doesn't look like one I have seen before :)

Posted by Zeegers on 01-02-2010 21:26
#4

Not to mention that the eyes are very hairy, only seen in Exorista grandis, which is, nomen est omen, bigger.

But I agree with Exoristini.

Phorinia aurifrons (again, nomen...) comes in mind


Theo

Posted by Xespok on 06-02-2010 18:43
#5

This is one of the Santaclaus flies with the white beard. I am happy that the pics are OK, I think I will not meet this fly very often in the future.