Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Big Tachinidae (May-23, 2010)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-05-2010 06:16
#1
Hello!
Some of these flies were flying around at a beech forest path (northwest Germany) three days ago, always returning to same places on leaves. There were two "size classes" (females and males?): some as big as
Tachina fera (~12-14 mm), some clearly smaller (7-9 mm). There were also many of the even smaller
Phorocera around there.
Is this
Ernestia sp.? Probably
E. puparum (seems a little bit late)?
Edited by Juergen Peters on 26-05-2010 06:17
Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-05-2010 06:16
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Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-05-2010 06:17
#3
A smaller one.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-05-2010 06:18
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Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-05-2010 06:18
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Posted by Juergen Peters on 26-05-2010 06:18
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Posted by conopid on 26-05-2010 07:53
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I had the same fly last week - it was Ernestia. In my case they were E rudis (I took a specimen to check identity), but it probably will not be possible to say which species yours is.
Edited by conopid on 26-05-2010 07:53
Posted by Juergen Peters on 27-05-2010 02:13
#8
conopid wrote:
I had the same fly last week - it was Ernestia. In my case they were E rudis (I took a specimen to check identity), but it probably will not be possible to say which species yours is.
Thanks, Nigel! I find
E. rudis relatively often in spring here, but I can't remember that they had such red markings. So I thought, these must have been a different species.