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Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-08-2006 01:00

Taken on 4th July in Amadora - LISBOA - PORTUGAL

A very clear fly. Amazing grey colour. Looks like a tachinidae fly... Genus level would be very appreciated! Thank you! Look those orange antennas... no such long bristles usual in tachinid... :|

EDIT:
Fix: title...

Oh... very few bristles...red eyes! Ok... but it looks an unusual sarcophagidae fly!

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 24-08-2006 09:13

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-08-2006 10:34

Paul Beuk wrote:
You are back in the area of Sarcophagidae - Miltogramminae.

Hi Paul

It fits great because I saw a lot of Bembex sp. wasps WHERE I saw this fly! And some Polistes spp. too! I know that these flies are kleptoparasites of bees and wasps!

here: "The large majority of Miltogramminae are kleptoparasites of solitary bees and wasps (e.g., Spofford et al. 1989)"

<<< anybody know which sarcophagidae flies kleptoparasite Bembex wasp? Or Polistes sp.? >>>> Thank you!

Posted by Zeegers on 24-08-2006 18:59

Beautiful Miltogramminae!
Does not ring a bell, and it would if I had ever seen it.

Theo

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 24-08-2006 19:59

Zeegers wrote:
Beautiful Miltogramminae!
Does not ring a bell, and it would if I had ever seen it.

Theo

:)

No genus level possible to determine? Which are the best possibilites for this fly? It was amazing to see Bembex sp. fly very near ground and stops sometimes to forage (?).. and not so far, I saw this fly awaiting in the shadow casted by little stone.

Posted by Zeegers on 24-08-2006 20:44

ID to genus or even species level is quite likely possible, ...
by an expert.
My knowledge of the Mediterrean fauna is simply too small,
so I don't qualify
Sorry

Theo

Posted by Liekele Sijstermans on 14-02-2007 11:17

It is Craticulina (Sarcophagidae). And it is indeed beautifull - as most miltogramminae :-).

Identification to the species level is only possible if you have collected a specimen.

Liekele