Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachinidae
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| Isidro |
Posted on 04-09-2008 11:54
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2095 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Please identify this fly common in a zone of NE corner of Spain (Catalonian pyrenees) with a entomofaunae composition with a very "french" style (various kinds of dragonflies and grashoppers relatyvely common in France but rare, very rare or very restrained in Spain). Photographed last week. Big size, as a Tachina fera. Habitat: marshes with many rushes? (Phragmites australis).       |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 04-09-2008 12:11
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
The small antennae & slightly shaded rm vein remind me of Trixa but let's wait for Theo because I am sure there are more alternatives in the south  |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 04-09-2008 13:30
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 Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Why not Billaea sp.? |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 04-09-2008 17:58
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
It's possible ... I never see them here in the UK though so I am not very familiar with them  |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 04-09-2008 20:49
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19055 Joined: 21.07.04 |
The topcel seems closed and the crossvein r-m is darkened. So I think it is Estheria picta, which I know to be common in the Pyrenees around this time. Theo |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 04-09-2008 21:32
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Wish a few of them would fly this way for a change!  |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 05-09-2008 00:12
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2095 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks ebverybody, I suppose that the most certain ID is the on e of Zeegers: Estheria picta. I will put this name in my files. |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 05-09-2008 00:14
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2095 Joined: 26.04.07 |
OOOOOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I saw that the second image is a completely different fly from a different place that I've pghotographed around the same days. I's bigger tha supposed Estheria picta and with more long legs, and was photographed in Plan, Huesca, and collected (two exemplars at least) by Jorge Mota Almeida. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 05-09-2008 07:16
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19055 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Good to know. Maybe different fly, but still can be same species. Legs are longer in males Dexiini. As said, E. picta is quite common these days in the Pyrenees. Theo |
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