Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae
Posted by nielsyese on 20-08-2011 08:57
#1
Hello everyone, this Tachinidae I found in Yerseke, the Netherlands, feeding on Heracleum sphondylium. I took these two pictures. Someone can give me an ID? Thanks.
Posted by nielsyese on 20-08-2011 08:57
#2
2nd picture
Posted by ChrisR on 20-08-2011 09:40
#3
Looks like
Lydella grisescens to me :)
Posted by oceanlis2000 on 20-08-2011 11:24
#4
Is this a male Chris?
Posted by Zeegers on 21-08-2011 14:21
#5
It is a Lydella, but it looks like L. stabulans to me.
It should be a male, since the proclinate orbital brisltes seem absent. The hairs on tergites are erect, thus indicating stabulans rather than grisescens.
Theo
Posted by oceanlis2000 on 23-08-2011 10:18
#6
Thanks Theo
I wondered becuase of the feet size, shouldn't they be bigger for stabulans and smaller for grisescens?
Posted by ChrisR on 23-08-2011 11:05
#7
If it is definitely a male then I would expect the fore tarsal claws to be longer in
stabulans ... unless these have been broken? I have been catching
L.grisescens here recently.