Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Big black Tachinid from Laguna Quilotoa/Ecuador (1 bad pic)

Posted by Rupert Huber on 18-10-2009 11:24
#1

Hello to all!
This is the last one of my Ecuadorian Tachinids (I'm sorry, Chris). The picture is bad because I couldn't get closer than about 2m. Must be the biggest Tachinid I've ever seen: at least 2cm. Perhaps there is anyone with some guess about subfamily at least or so???

21.8.2009, Ecuador, Prov. Cotopaxi, Laguna Quilotoa, about 3500m asl

Posted by ChrisR on 18-10-2009 11:31
#2

Those long, forward-pointing palps must be quite distinctive, but they are a feature of a few Nearctic and Neotropical genera :)

Posted by John Carr on 26-06-2024 21:37
#3

I suspect it is close to Eudejeania pyrrhopoda.