Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinid #4 from 08.05.22: Phasia? --> P. cf. pusilla

Posted by Juergen Peters on 10-05-2022 19:38
#1

Hello,

a 5 mm fly on Leucanthemum vulgare on a meadow near a hedge (northwest Germany). Seemed too big for Phasis barbifrons or pusilla, more like obesa.

Also some Phania funesta, Siphona sp. and Tachina fera were around there.

Edited by Juergen Peters on 11-05-2022 00:24

Posted by Juergen Peters on 10-05-2022 19:38
#2

Pic #2

Posted by Zeegers on 10-05-2022 19:56
#3

Does look loke pusilla, difficult to be sure.

Theo

Posted by Juergen Peters on 11-05-2022 00:23
#4

Zeegers wrote:
Does look loke pusilla, difficult to be sure.


Thank you, Theo! Then it was the biggest Phasia pusilla, I've ever seen.