Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae - Rutilia sp.
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 16-12-2011 19:36
#1
Another set of photos granted by Jean Hort this time showing a beast of a Tachinidae fly. :) One that will trigger (sql lol ) screams on Chris :D
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 16-12-2011 19:37
#2
another one:
Posted by ChrisR on 16-12-2011 20:04
#3
Lovely :)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 16-12-2011 20:09
#4
so the result of the trigger is: lovely... interesting. And I wonder what kind of trigger would take you to the nirvana status. Maybe a Trigonospila looking at you very quietly... :) create trigger Trigonospilaf_ckyeah (to complete soon). :)
Posted by Sara21392 on 16-12-2011 22:28
#5
Really nice species and photography! |t :)
Posted by Stephen R on 17-12-2011 12:51
#6
Not sure Jorge fully understands British 'sangfroid'. For us 'lovely'
is an ecstatic response :D
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 17-12-2011 12:56
#7
very strange ecstatic response. should be more "ecdynamic" response. :P
It is a very fleumatic response then. :P
Posted by Stephen R on 17-12-2011 13:00
#8
Perhaps there should be a 'stiff upper lip' emoticon :|
Posted by Piluca_Alvarez on 18-12-2011 22:16
#9
Probably Jorge was expecting something more similar to my own reaction:
OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! :o :o :o :o OMG!! OMG!! OMG!!
:D :D :D
Jorge, where did you get that one?? Is it also Australian????
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-12-2011 00:32
#10
I 'went' to Australia in business and could spot this one with Jean....
(that reaction is typical for mediterranean people, which are so very different to the nordic fleumatic ones.)
Posted by Paul Beuk on 19-12-2011 10:56
#11
To add to the British sense of understatement: Duh!
Posted by ChrisR on 19-12-2011 16:36
#12
Well, it is a really nice fly ... and I'd love to see one in the field like that ... but it isn't a big surprise that there are flies that look like that because I have seen about 3 drawers of
Rutillia in the NHM with examples of species that make that one look positively dull in comparison! ;)
Now ... if you want a real "WOW!" tachinid then you have to look at
Bibiomima:
It's pretty rare (NHM have just 1 - this one - Panama canal region, dated 1913) and very very distinctive, with those coloured wing veins and black, disc-like calyptrae.
:D
Edited by ChrisR on 19-12-2011 16:38
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 19-12-2011 16:48
#13
very nice one, Chris. The wings resemble, in some way, those of Euantha sp. (but darkier in this genus).
Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 19-12-2011 16:48