Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachinid - one for Chris!
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| Smoggycb |
Posted on 01-09-2008 11:02
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Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07 |
From my garden by shingle and saltmarsh yesterday. This has got to be Mintho rufiventris hasn't it?
Smoggycb attached the following image:  [71.61Kb] Edited by Smoggycb on 01-09-2008 12:09 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 01-09-2008 14:06
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Wow - looks like it (2 dark thoracic vittae, red abdomenal side patches, laterally compressed abdomen etc.) - that's a nice record in the UK - not a common fly at all!  |
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| Smoggycb |
Posted on 01-09-2008 18:47
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Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07 |
Thanks for the confirmation Chris. It certainly is a nice looking beast. I contacted the records centre at Sussex wildlife trust and there don't appear to be any recent records for the county. Top fly! |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 01-09-2008 22:25
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Absolutely! They are found infrequently and we get very few records in the UK but that might change as our climate warms. Other groups, like the phasiines have been doing better recently  Will you send us that record later, in an end of year batch? |
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| Smoggycb |
Posted on 01-09-2008 22:45
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Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07 |
Can do Chris. Remind me on and I'll send you all the tachinid records we have (only about 70 at the mo) and any extra records from this years collecting. If you want I'll also have a word with the Sussex Biological records centre and see if they mind passing on their records to you. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 01-09-2008 23:40
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Would be nice, if you have the contacts there - thanks |
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