Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae ID

Posted by Patrick Le Mao on 01-11-2013 20:14
#1

Hi!

from France (Brittany), last july.
can you identify this tachinidae?


Patrick

Edited by Patrick Le Mao on 01-11-2013 20:21

Posted by Patrick Le Mao on 01-11-2013 20:18
#2

a second picture

Posted by ChrisR on 01-11-2013 20:56
#3

It looks very interesting but I can't see enough detail in thee photos. Do you have closer crops and perhaps other angles?

Posted by Patrick Le Mao on 01-11-2013 21:13
#4

ChrisR wrote:
It looks very interesting but I can't see enough detail in thee photos. Do you have closer crops and perhaps other angles?


What part of this fly would like to see?

Posted by Zeegers on 02-11-2013 09:21
#5

Bithia spec. (?)


Theo

Posted by ChrisR on 02-11-2013 09:46
#6

@Patrick: It's difficult to list exactly which parts we'd like to see - all and everything, in high resolution would be the ideal ;) Identifying tachinids isn't easy without a specimen under a microscope so the more help you can give, the better.

@Theo: Bithia was on my list but it looks like one of the more unusual ones if it is ... I wasn't sure whether I could make out the yellow basicosta because the images are not very detailed.

Edited by ChrisR on 02-11-2013 09:47

Posted by Patrick Le Mao on 02-11-2013 12:04
#7

I have this picture

Posted by Patrick Le Mao on 02-11-2013 12:07
#8

but I'm afraid that I have no other picture

Posted by ChrisR on 02-11-2013 12:12
#9

Running it through Mosch Bithia is the most likely genus and, as it isn't spreta, it would probably need a specimen to go further :)

Posted by Patrick Le Mao on 02-11-2013 13:17
#10

Thanks a lot!
Too late for this one. Maybe next year...

Posted by Zeegers on 02-11-2013 13:25
#11

Yes, it is Bithia, somewhere in the modesta group most lilkely


Theo

Posted by Patrick Le Mao on 02-11-2013 15:44
#12

Great! :D|t

I'll search for one next year at the same place