Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae - Peleteria ? => Tachina

Posted by TomiTrilar on 09-11-2010 08:16
#1

Slovenia: Koritnice, Kozja pec;, 10. 6. 2008
Size 6-7 mm.
Photographed on dry carstic meadow with bushes.

Is it genus Peleteria ?

Edited by TomiTrilar on 22-10-2015 21:26

Posted by Zeegers on 09-11-2010 08:36
#2

NO, it is a member of the related genus Tachina.

In Peleteria the legs are dark, here the tibiae distinctly red.

Was the fly hilltopping ?


Theo

Posted by TomiTrilar on 09-11-2010 09:11
#3

Thank you, Theo.

The fly was sitting on the warm limestone rock near the top of the hill, but I am not sure if this was matting behaviour (hilltoping).

Tomi

Posted by Zeegers on 09-11-2010 18:47
#4

Well, that was not hilltopping in the classical sense


Thanks


Theo