Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Large Australian Sarcophagidae.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 18-04-2010 21:11
#1
This attractive fly is a regular catch in my malaise trap. Townsville, Australia. Genera?
Posted by ChrisR on 18-04-2010 21:17
#2
That's a real beaut :D Do you get many tachinids in the Malaise and have you tried keying them using Crosskey? :)
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 18-04-2010 21:27
#3
No, I am not aware of Crosskey? Is it a tachanid not a sarcophagid?
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 18-04-2010 21:27
#4
Beautiful beast. Looks like
Sarcophaga aurifrons (not an ID, not even a proposition).
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 18-04-2010 21:31
#5
Thanks Stephane, Even if you are not sure it's better than no name at all.
Posted by ChrisR on 18-04-2010 21:51
#6
As Stephane says, it is certainly a sarco - and a really attractively marked one. :)
I was just wondering if you get many tachinids and if you do anything with them - Malaise traps usually catch quite a lot. There is a key to genera, by a chap called Crosskey, but I haven't seen enough specimens to know if it is much good :)
Edited by ChrisR on 18-04-2010 21:52
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 18-04-2010 21:59
#7
Yes tachinids are well represented in the malaise catch. I'm a contributor to the iBOL project and all interesting stuff from the trap is sent to them for DNA sequencing. The fly ends up at the Australian Museum.
Posted by ChrisR on 18-04-2010 22:42
#8
That's interesting stuff - would be good to see the results some time ... DNA sequencing of tachinids has been done before but the results are often fairly confused, I think :)
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 18-04-2010 23:03
#9
It's early days for the Diptera on BOLD, and especially my stuff as I'm pretty sure a lot will be incorrectly id'd. This doesn't matter at this stage, Im concentrating more on volume of individuals. So I can't make a comment yet on the results for Tachinidae.