Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae? red/orange fly

Posted by gedra on 21-09-2010 17:20
#1

Hi, this fly was buzzing around in my window yesterday. Location is outside Oslo, Norway.
is it a Tachinidae?

rgds
Geir

Edited by gedra on 21-09-2010 17:41

Posted by ChrisR on 21-09-2010 17:29
#2

Looks like a muscid to me - note the median vein is straight, which is very rare in tachinids ;)

Posted by gedra on 21-09-2010 17:43
#3

Thanks, muscid it is. Looking in the Muscidae gallery, there is only one fly looking like this - Thricops diaphanus. Are there other species it could be?


Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 21-09-2010 17:51
#4

Phaonia pallida is very close in appearance, but Thricops diaphanus is the right ID here.