Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachina lurida?

Posted by Manu70 on 18-03-2026 14:51
#1

This one, perched on a wild garlic leaf, with its funny-looking head, seems to me to be a newly hatched Tachina lurida perhaps?
18-03-2026 Granges le bourg, Haute-Saône, Franche-Comté, France

Posted by eklans on 18-03-2026 15:10
#2

Newly hatched Tachina lurida is correct!

Posted by Manu70 on 18-03-2026 17:35
#3

So it is indeed ptilinum, I was afraid I was saying something stupid!
Thanks a lot, Eric.