Thread subject: Diptera.info :: [Gonia sp] On "herbe de Provence", a tachinid?
Posted by HDumas on 19-04-2010 17:38
#1
Hello,
Is it a Tachinid, feeding on
Thymus?
Ca 9 mm; 15.IV.2010; Southern France
Edited by HDumas on 14-06-2012 18:05
Posted by ChrisR on 19-04-2010 18:54
#2
Yes -
Gonia sp. :)
Posted by HDumas on 19-04-2010 19:18
#3
Thank you Chris :)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-04-2010 20:02
#4
Gonia picea?
Posted by HDumas on 19-04-2010 21:31
#5
I found Coleoptera and Lepidoptera as hosts for american
Gonia species.
Is it the same for european species?
Each
Gonia species is parasitoid of one host species or several?
Posted by ChrisR on 19-04-2010 21:59
#6
I think one of the problems is that they are not very common - especially here in the north (I have never caught one), where there are fewer large areas of good habitat. Rearing records seem to be few and far-between :(
Posted by Zeegers on 21-04-2010 20:23
#7
Gonia is very common in the south.
Its hosts are earthliving caterpillars of Noctuidae, such as Cerapteryx graminis
Theo
Posted by HDumas on 24-04-2010 11:33
#8
Thank you both :)
@ Chris: Sorry, I've no time now for catching flies, but I keep it in mind.