Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Shining Tachinidae

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 18-05-2006 17:15
#1

Moscow, park, 18 may, 6-6,5mm, one of a kind.
Is it Gymnochaeta viridis?

Posted by Robert Nash on 18-05-2006 17:29
#2

Nikita - this looks like viridis but ours are a different and very distinctive shade of green (lighter) at least when alive. I am sure Chris (Raper) would know. Robert

Edited by Robert Nash on 18-05-2006 17:48

Posted by Zeegers on 18-05-2006 17:49
#3

It is - indeed - a female Gymnochaeta viridis


Theo Zeegers

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 18-05-2006 19:17
#4

Thank you Theo and Robert.
In this case my doubts were also due small size of fly.
Nikita

Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-05-2006 17:48
#5

So - I think this will be the same? 10mm, from east London cemetery park, 29 April 2006.

Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-05-2006 17:49
#6

Another view

Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-05-2006 17:50
#7

And another

Posted by Zeegers on 22-05-2006 21:14
#8

Hi Susan,


You're right, that's the same species: Gymnochaeta viridis

Posted by Susan R Walter on 23-05-2006 10:13
#9

Thanks Theo. They are a particularly beautiful rich emerald colour, I think.

Posted by lweit on 23-05-2006 21:37
#10

I think that the name is Gymnocheta viridis (Fall?n) (dixit FE) ?
Louis