Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Peteina erinaceus 1
Posted by hedy2411 on 03-01-2011 23:10
#1
...a Zophomyia temula...?
Picture is made 22-6-2009 in Zeist, Holland
Edited by hedy2411 on 04-01-2011 22:02
Posted by ChrisR on 04-01-2011 00:10
#2
Definitely not ... it looks really unusual but I am guessing that it is a sarcophagid, not a tachinid ... or a very weird-looking tachinid :D
Posted by neprisikiski on 04-01-2011 00:34
#3
I think,
Peteina erinaceus it is.
Posted by ChrisR on 04-01-2011 00:48
#4
Wow, that is a very unusual tachinid ... funnily enough I actually took a photo of one in the Moscow University Zoology museum this year:
:)
Posted by neprisikiski on 04-01-2011 01:05
#5
Chris, is it Nyctia halterata in your photo ?
Posted by ChrisR on 04-01-2011 01:11
#6
Now, that is a really interesting question ... it was labelled "
Peteina erinaceus" in the collection and I must have photographed it because it looked unusual for a tachinid. But I didn't have the time to redetermine all of the material so I just took photos and put the specimen back. It does look like
Nyctia so maybe we should ask Nikita to check the determination? :D
I was thinking that the fly in my photo has a similarly elongate R5 and concave median vein and the abdominal bristling looked similar. I wonder if someone mistook a
Nyctia for
Peteina too ... or perhaps
Nyctia comes out at
Peteina when keyed through whichever key they used?
Edited by ChrisR on 04-01-2011 01:13
Posted by neprisikiski on 04-01-2011 01:34
#7
Yes, these species can be confusable for not an expert...
Posted by Zeegers on 04-01-2011 16:32
#8
Peteina has the vertex very broad and male Nyctia very narrow.
So Erikas is 1000 % [sic] correct.
Otherwise: my comment is as before ( Holy **** a Peteina !!)
Theo