Thread subject: Diptera.info :: > Tachinidae; Phasia pusilla or barbifrons?

Posted by nick upton on 27-08-2011 15:59
#1
Is this little black fly a flat-footed fly... and if so can anyone suggest a genus/species, but no doubt they are tricky form photos. I've not knowingly seen one before, so may well be wrong.

24.8.11 c4mm feeding on flowers near a beach, Samos, Greece.
Edited by nick upton on 27-08-2011 16:45

Posted by nick upton on 27-08-2011 16:00
#2
another view

Posted by tristram on 27-08-2011 16:29
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Phasia pusilla/barbifrons (Tachinidae)?

Posted by nick upton on 27-08-2011 16:42
#4
Thanks tristram; looks much more likely and I did thjnk it was probaby a small tachinid when i first saw it, and it was feeding near a Gymnosoma, but hadn't seen this little black one before.