Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae
Posted by cyprinoid on 02-04-2010 15:10
#1
Norway, 02.04.10, 5-7mm maybe
Posted by cyprinoid on 02-04-2010 15:11
#2
another
Posted by cyprinoid on 02-04-2010 15:11
#3
one more
Posted by ChrisR on 02-04-2010 15:13
#4
Lypha dubia would be most likely I think :)
Posted by cyprinoid on 02-04-2010 15:15
#5
That was fast!
Thank you.
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 02-04-2010 17:26
#6
It looks more like
Campylochaeta praecox to me.
Posted by cyprinoid on 02-04-2010 18:10
#7
How do we tell them apart?
It was spotted by my two year-old on a forest trail, I tried to collect it but all I had was two lens caps :D.
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 02-04-2010 18:57
#8
I'd say :
Lypha dubia has a more deeply concave deflection of vein M, less paler tibiae, less large 3d antennal segment, and not these linear bristly parfacialiae. Furthermore, I think the ocellar setae are reclinate, as they have to be for
C. praecox.
Posted by ChrisR on 02-04-2010 19:14
#9
Well spotted Stephane - I'd go with something like
C.praecox too, now that you have pointed those out :)
Posted by cyprinoid on 02-04-2010 20:04
#10
Thank you Stephane!
I think there is a typo in the gallery.
Campylochaeta should be Campylocheta here?
http://diptera.in...to_id=3645
Edited by cyprinoid on 02-04-2010 21:21
Posted by Zeegers on 02-04-2010 20:28
#11
I'm with Stephane for the reasons mentioned.
Moreover, in most praecox (as here) the tibae are distinctly reddish, in Lypha always black.
Praecox is even earlier in the year then Lypha
Theo