Thread subject: Diptera.info :: "Strange" pupa (Tachinidae?)

Posted by Rui Andrade on 05-11-2007 18:03
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I have with me some pupae of parasitoid flies (I think they are all tachinids).
One of them is very strange to me. Unlike the others, it has a curvature. Is it possible to tell if it belongs to a different group from the others? (the host of the "strange" pupa is a larva of Acronicta tridens).
Thank you

location: Barcelos, Portugal
date: 2007/10/31

"strange" pupa (host: Acronicta tridens)
img408.imageshack.us/img408/5976/paraoh7.jpg

"normal" pupa (host: Carcharodus alceae)
img408.imageshack.us/img408/5829/para1tl1.jpg

Edited by Rui Andrade on 05-11-2007 18:19