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Beast from Serra da Estrela - Zeuxia sicardi (not zernyi)
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Dear friends


This tachinid has puzzled me. Dunno even the genus of this one. Medium size, spotted in the same place as the Acrocera... 1500 m in this Sunday.
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the antennae are extremely reduced and arista is soft hairy...
 
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Superficially looks like Eriothrix but the antennae are tiny and the petiole too long. The name that is rattling around in my brain AND coincidentally the one that pops out in Tschorsnig's software key is ... Zeuxia Smile I don't know the species in your part of the world though Smile
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Zeuxia it is, you can see the row of proclinate orbitals.
Z. zernyi is this red, if I remember correctly, need tocheck


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thanks, Theo. I'm eager for the final confirmation. It seems that we have some Zeuxia!
 
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Yes, I remembered it correctly: zernyi
Most Zeuxia are very obvious as such:
* appendix to bend
* topcel stalked
* both sexes with row of proclinate orbitals.

however, there are exceptions to all of this !

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Those tiny antennae + long petiole were quite distinctive Smile Nice fly.
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Today I was in the same spot and I found over 20 Zeuxia Grin They are rather common at 1500 m Grin
 
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Zeuxia sicardi...
I must update the gallery.
 
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