Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae
Posted by conopid on 12-09-2011 23:22
#1
I am having trouble determining this one. Not one I have encountered before (I think). It has small orange patches on the sides of the tergites which almost disappear as one shifts the fly around under the light.
About 9mm length. July 28, UK scrub, grassland and relict heath (a golf course in fact).
The eyes are bare. The arista is bare.
Posted by conopid on 12-09-2011 23:24
#2
ventral view of genitalia
Posted by ChrisR on 12-09-2011 23:34
#3
I would have guessed a
Macquartia - are you sure that the eyes are really bare? The yellow tibiae are nice and distinctive - might be something unusual. Can you give a dorsal view?
Posted by conopid on 13-09-2011 11:04
#4
Hi Chris,
I've double checked the specimen and can confirm that the eyes are bare. Here is a dorsal shot. I could not get it to key to any of the Macquartia in Belshaw (your manuscript version).
Posted by ChrisR on 13-09-2011 13:10
#5
Hmm, OK then I'm left thinking that it might be
Pelatachina tibialis but if you send it over to me I can confirm that if you can't make it run in Belshaw :)
Posted by conopid on 13-09-2011 13:17
#6
Thanks Chris I'll check out Pelatachina and if no luck there I'll post it down to you.
Cheers
Posted by conopid on 14-09-2011 09:34
#7
Thanks Chris, yes it is P tibialis. I should have recognised that one - I have a few specimens already.