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Hi all,

any suggestions for this Tachinid fly put on picture yesterday near Ghent, Belgium?
Superficially similar to Ernestia puparum but lacking the typical abdomen coloration



any help is much appreciated.

Pieter

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Smidtia conspersa

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Hi Erikas,

in fact a species I was thinking of too, but a specimen I pictured in spring 2009 has the scutellum bicolored with the front half black and only the tip reddish.
That specimen was determined by Theo, so I was in no position back then to doubt the ID :)
http://www.dipter...d_id=20687
But maybe, as then, the 3 post DC bristles do the clinch and the coloration of the scutellum is variable?