Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae (3), July 03, 2007

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 05-07-2007 09:20
#1

Size 10 mm. Around 6 p.m., on flowers of Tilia cordata.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 05-07-2007 09:21
#2

A dorsal view.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 05-07-2007 09:22
#3

The head.

Posted by ChrisR on 05-07-2007 09:34
#4

I know this might be tricky but can you photograph the terminalia? It looks like a male Ernestia/Eurithia (possibly Ernestia rudis) so they should be fairly large :)

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 05-07-2007 09:47
#5

Thanks Chris - yes it's a male, I picked at its privy parts :) a little when took these pix. OK I'll try...

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 08-07-2007 21:06
#6

That's the result of my best efforts - hope you'll see here what we don't Chris :).

Posted by ChrisR on 09-07-2007 10:39
#7

Hi Dima

The closest I can get (and I am fairly confident) is Eurithia connivens :) The small (yes "small" - consobrina has an even bigger one!!) triangular process on the syncercus is quite distinctive - along with the 3 post-sutural dc; 2 marginals on T4; and very narrow vertex.

I don't think I have seen connivens very often here, so it might be one of the more uncommon species but I doubt it is 'rare', as such. I usually get anthophila or consobrina in good numbers most years. :)

Best wishes,
Chris R.

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 09-07-2007 17:09
#8

Great, so we eventually have come to something Chris:).