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Hi,

I'm not sure if I have ever seen this kind of golden Tachinidae before. July 17. 2010 Loviisa, Finland

Jari

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Leskia aurea? :)

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Then I really have not seen it before. A new one again, thank's Chris :)

Jari

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Ahh, lovely ... I think they are much commoner in your part of the world than they are here. Nikita gave me one from Moscow region and Jaakko sent me 2 from Finland, so I have a few here in my collection from the north-east of Europe :)

They really are a lovely tachinid and there's not much that is as golden as Leskia aurea :)

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Hi Chris (and Jari),

Not that commonly seen on open, but numerous when you rear the host, especially Synanthedon spheciformis. I think this must be more boreal species as the host is commonly found from young Alnus or Betula shoots, which you simply don´t have as abundantly as we in the North (on our clearcuts, especially... :()

I collected this weekend Lydella ripae male, Leiophora innoxia, Phasia hemiptera and all three species of Dinera among others while being out with the kids. Not bad. L. innoxia was a real treat!

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Take a photo to the L. innoxia specimen, if possible. ;)

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Yeah, I only ever had L.innoxia twice here - from Malaise traps :)

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Hi,

Fresh from the press. Unfortunately I don´t really have equipment to take proper photos, this is just shot through the scope with a pocket camera... Wing cell is open, although looks closed in the picture, arista thickened to half and there is a thin line of silver dusting on each tergite margin. Size 5 mm.

The biotope is cool: some 3 km from where I live there is apparently an old military grounds with a huge, open, low vegetation meadow. Very hot landscape with abundant orthopterans, including Oedipoda caerulescens numerously. I caught this by sweeping the low grass.