Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Parasitic fly
Posted by Lavendel on 21-04-2012 19:56
#1
Hi,
Can anyone help me identify this parasitic fly following a grasshopper. Shot on a metal pipe through dry grassland near dutch border in Belgium (Doel).
Thanks!
Edited by Lavendel on 21-04-2012 19:59
Posted by Lavendel on 21-04-2012 20:02
#2
with the grasshopper
Posted by Lavendel on 21-04-2012 20:03
#3
side view
Posted by ChrisR on 21-04-2012 20:04
#4
As far as I know, the only muscoid that attacks grasshoppers is
Therobia leonidei ... but that doesn't look quite right. I will have to get my specimen out to check - did you take a specimen?
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 21-04-2012 20:11
#5
I think it is
Blaesoxipha, Sarcophagidae.
Posted by ChrisR on 21-04-2012 20:12
#6
Ahhhh, that would explain a few things - do they go for Orthoptera? We get them quite rarely in my region :(
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 21-04-2012 20:18
#7
Yes, they do.
Posted by John Carr on 22-04-2012 00:51
#8
ChrisR wrote:
As far as I know, the only muscoid that attacks grasshoppers is Therobia leonidei
Also
Acridomyia.
Posted by ChrisR on 22-04-2012 08:38
#9
Interesting - thanks guys - I do tend to be a bit too tachinid-focused and it's nice to hear that other groups have similar life strategies! :)
Posted by Lavendel on 22-04-2012 09:31
#10
Thank you all!
Quit interresting to see what kind of flies are parasitic.
And IŽam sorry Chris I usualy do not collect, I just shoot ;-)