Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinid from French Guiana
Posted by Stephen on 19-06-2011 16:39
#1
Is this Cylindromyia? Réserve naturelle Trésor, 2 June 2011. Length: 9.1 mm to apex of abdomen.
Posted by Stephen on 19-06-2011 16:40
#2
Réserve naturelle Trésor, French Guiana, 2 June 2011.
Posted by ChrisR on 19-06-2011 17:35
#3
Wow! No - it doesn't look phasiine - but I have no idea what it is and I haven't seen anything like it before in the material I have from French Guiana. Did you take a specimen? :)
Posted by Stephen on 19-06-2011 17:43
#4
No, didn't do any collecting. I wonder if I have any other views? I'll look!
Posted by ChrisR on 19-06-2011 18:10
#5
I have a feeling that it will be one of the Blondeliini - a very difficult group to work on in the neotropics. Specimens are really mandatory anywhere south of Mexico and most material you find will not be identifiable because there are so few keys and so many undescribed species. Saying that, this one is very striking so it is possible that if you showed it to Monty Wood he might know whether it reminds him of anything he has come across :)
Posted by Sara21392 on 19-06-2011 18:54
#6
Wow, what a pretty...!!!! :D:D
Posted by Stephen on 20-06-2011 00:37
#7
Thanks, Chris, I'll get in touch with Monty Wood, to see if this fly "rings a bell" with him. I'm posting one more image. I'm not sure it adds much, but it was the only other angle I got.
Posted by ChrisR on 20-06-2011 08:06
#8
It's a really exciting fly so I hope Monty might have seen something similar - but I would approach him assuming that an identification is impossible and just see if he has seen anything *like* it :)
I'll have a think and see if I have anything similar here ... I am pretty sure I don't but that gold strip on the front of the thorax rings bells.
Edited by ChrisR on 20-06-2011 08:07
Posted by rvanderweele on 20-06-2011 08:49
#9
Very fascinating looking fly!