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Hi all,
can anyone help with this one, taken in South Australia by a fellow fly enthusiast. http://www.redbub...ple/enivea

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Tachinidae, one for Chris. This time no neotropical species, but from a completely other part of the world

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Very nice :) Did you get other angles? If this was in Europe I would say that it is Hemyda but a quick look at the side of the eye should confirm whether this is related :)

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Thanks for the input guys, here's a side view Chris, hope it helps.

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Hmm, well that doesn't look like Hemyda now ... it looks more like a Cylindromyia but your tachinid fauna isn't very familiar to me so I might have to pass and wait for someone else to comment. It's definitely a phasiine tachinid, so it will be a bug parasitoid ... but I'm not sure which genera are possible there :)

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Thanks Chris, that has given me a lead to delve further.

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I do not know the Australian tachinid fauna very well. But I had a look at Cantrell (1984) about Australian Phasiinae including a revision of Cylindromyiini.

The specimen on the picture is Cylindromyia. To give id at species level we would need a specimen. However the specimen matches the description of C. bimacula which happens to be the most common Cylindromyia in Australia.

Liekele

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Thanks for that Liekele, very helpful information.