Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Two Tachinidae a m?le and the female ?
Posted by lweit on 18-06-2006 12:17
#1
Hello
I've taken this photo the 15/07/2006 ien NE of France, near Metz.
This two flies was to gether on Achillea millefolium, it's looks like to Gymnosoma rotundatum (Linn?), it's a male and a femelle, and which photo is the male ??
Thank you
Posted by lweit on 18-06-2006 12:19
#2
Tha second photo
The male or the female ??
Edited by lweit on 18-06-2006 12:20
Posted by lweit on 18-06-2006 12:20
#3
Tha second photo
The male or the female ??
Posted by ChrisR on 18-06-2006 14:49
#4
Looks like
G.rotundatum to me (but there are others that look very similar in mainland Europe eg.
nudifrons). If one is a female then I think it should be the one withthe widest frons (second photo) :)
Posted by Zeegers on 18-06-2006 15:37
#5
Chris is right
First male, second female
however, the species looks to me like G. nudifrons.
Not sure so, the perspective might fool me.
Theo
Posted by lweit on 19-06-2006 17:51
#6
Another photo ot this tachinid taken a few days later in the same place
Edited by lweit on 19-06-2006 17:53
Posted by Zeegers on 19-06-2006 21:19
#7
'This tachinid'? No way !
You have illustrated nicely how much the Gymnosoma are alike.
This is G. dolycoridis, or possibly clavatum, but definitely not nudifrons nor rotundatum. The pruinescense on the scutellum is characteristic.
Theo Zeegers