Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae?

Posted by Rui Andrade on 18-02-2010 23:17
#1

What is it possible to say about this tiny fly?

location: Barcelos, Portugal
date: 08/05/2009

Edited by Rui Andrade on 19-02-2010 18:45

Posted by Michael Ackland on 19-02-2010 10:45
#2

Not an anthomyiid, the calypters are too large and the wrong shape and the abdomen has many erect tergal setae. perhaps a tachinid?

Posted by socrates on 19-02-2010 13:09
#3

i'd say tachinid too..

Posted by Rui Andrade on 19-02-2010 18:44
#4

Thanks Michael and Socrates! I'll change the title to attract the tachinid specialists.

Posted by Zeegers on 20-02-2010 09:48
#5

It is like the novel of Edgar Allen Poe, you know which language it is not, but you don't know what it is.

It is not a Tachinidae, in my opinion. The arista is plumose, calyptra rather small.....

SO a Rhinophorid, a Calliphorid .....

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Theo
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Posted by Rui Andrade on 20-02-2010 18:10
#6

Thanks Theo. I hope this means that it is an interesting species. I'll try to collect some next time. At first I thought it was an anthomyiid because I think it is the same species as the one on another thread I posted in 2008 in which Nikita said it was that family:
http://www.dipter...d_id=13319

Posted by Zeegers on 21-02-2010 21:31
#7

Well, it is not my call it aint a Anthomyiid


Theo