Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Abdomen slender, banded, and with bristles

Posted by Stephen on 13-06-2007 17:06
#1
Not sure what to make of this fly. ID help appreciated!

Very busy so it was hard to get a good picture of it.

Forest, rolling hills, West Virginia USA, 10 June 2007. Not especially small.

Posted by Stephen on 13-06-2007 17:07
#2
Cropped to show more detail.

Posted by Stephen on 13-06-2007 17:10
#3
Third image.

Posted by Xespok on 13-06-2007 17:28
#4
This one seems to be an interesting Tachinid.

Posted by Stephen on 13-06-2007 19:32
#5
Gabor, thanks very much! So skinny, I would not have thought of Tachinidae. But after your ID, I found a possible genus: Cylindromyia. I didn't find a match, but I found flies with similar characteristics such as the shape of the calypters. Anyhow there is some information here:
http://bugguide.n.../view/9906
Thanks again for your help!

Posted by Zeegers on 15-06-2007 11:26
#6
a member of the Doleschaliini tribe.
Should be rather easy to ID, I guess, not to many species.
Doleschaliini have a peculiar distribution: they occur in the neotropics (apparently entering the USA) and in the Oriental region.


Theo Zeegers

Posted by ChrisR on 21-02-2010 21:54
#7
Just refound this thread after doing some work on just this genus :D My specimens are neotropical but this one, being from the USA, should be Cordyligaster septentrionalis :)