Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinid?

Posted by jezlee on 26-08-2010 13:23
#1

Hello all - I think this is a tachinid of some sort? Does anyone agree, and if so, do you know which species? :)

Posted by jezlee on 26-08-2010 13:24
#2

Another view ... :)

Posted by jezlee on 26-08-2010 13:24
#3

And another ... :)

Posted by jezlee on 26-08-2010 13:26
#4

One more after this ... :)

Posted by jezlee on 26-08-2010 13:28
#5

Last one - and a little more information: caught yesterday on umbellifer in Wolverhampton, England. Overall length approx. 6mm. :)

Posted by ChrisR on 26-08-2010 13:29
#6

Sarcophagidae - Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) sp. I would guess :)

There's no subscutellum, it has plumose arista (only in dexiine tachinids) and it has the classic striped thorax and checkered abdomen of the Sarcophaga group ;)

Posted by jezlee on 26-08-2010 13:35
#7

ChrisR wrote:
Sarcophagidae - Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) sp. I would guess :)

There's no subscutellum, it has plumose arista (only in dexiine tachinids) and it has the classic striped thorax and checkered abdomen of the Sarcophaga group ;)


Bugger! :@ Thanks, Chris, as usual, for putting me straight!!

I'll get there ... hopefully ... if I live long enough! :D