Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Another Tachinidae ??
Posted by Tony T on 17-08-2008 15:58
#1
15 August 2008, NB Canada. Length: 9mm
Posted by Zeegers on 17-08-2008 16:17
#2
The nasty ovipositor (from the host's point of view) should be an important clue.
Theo
Posted by Tony T on 17-08-2008 16:42
#3
Phyllophilopsis ?
Theo: Do you still want prints of
Gymnoclytia?
Posted by Jaakko on 18-08-2008 11:34
#4
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Edited by Jaakko on 18-08-2008 11:37
Posted by Jaakko on 18-08-2008 11:36
#5
Habitus, ovipositor (tubulous, not sharp) and 2 st point to Winthemini, perhaps
Nemorilla or
Winthemia sp. You might have several species (or genuses) there!
Jaakko
Edited by Jaakko on 18-08-2008 11:37
Posted by Zeegers on 18-08-2008 19:44
#6
I agree with Jaakko, Winthemia / Carcelia was my very strong first impression. But be not fooled: the new world is a different universe !
(where I have no authority, by the way).
Actually, consulting Wood in the Manual, Phyllophilopsis seems to be a good suggestion. In which case it is Blondellini, which I had never guessed. Note that the pra-alar bristle is invisible in the pic.
Theo
Posted by Jaakko on 18-08-2008 23:28
#7
Live and learn... Some convergent evolution, I'd say! :o
Theo is right, the ia is too short. (Forum seems to be quite tricky today).
Jaakko
Posted by Tony T on 19-08-2008 00:54
#8
Thanks Theo and Jaakko for all the time you have put into this fly.
Only 2 spp. of
Phyllophilopsis in NA and the only species likely to reach NB is
nitens.
Wood in the Nearctic Manual shows a lateral view of the face of
nitens (Fig 46, p.1216); my fly is obviously not a match. So we go back to
Nemorilla or
Winthemia?
Would a dorsal view help?
Posted by Zeegers on 19-08-2008 20:12
#9
The parafacialia are hairy.
I could have seen that on the second pic.
Why didn't I stick to the rule not to comment on nearctic Tachinidae ?
So Tony, if you please could make a lateral picture of the thorax, we will probably see 5 humerals and a strong prae-alar,in which case Jaakko was right all along.
Theo