Thread subject: Diptera.info :: probably Asilidae family

Posted by Sezima on 15-12-2010 22:44
#1

This brave fly kept jumping on my lens. Photo taken on 28 June 2010 on the edge of a wood, on hot and sunny day in the Czech Republic.

Thank you.

David

Posted by rvanderweele on 15-12-2010 23:31
#2

Not probably, but certainly.

Posted by Sezima on 16-12-2010 09:18
#3

To Ruud van der Weele:

Could you please specify which species it can be ?

Thank you

David

Posted by rvanderweele on 16-12-2010 09:57
#4

No, this question has to be answered by the asilid-fanatics.

Posted by Paul Beuk on 16-12-2010 10:57
#5

Genus Choerades, I'd say. I have failed to often in naming species in that genus, so I will not try again. ;)

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 16-12-2010 16:47
#6

Choerades cf gilva, very probable. Everything points in that direction but i can not entirely exclude C. ignea.

Posted by Sezima on 18-12-2010 23:43
#7

Many thanks to you all.

As a layman I thought that the red abdomen would be a help. I am attaching another photo of the beast.

David

Posted by Quaedfliegh on 24-12-2010 16:49
#8

The scutellar setae seem black that would indicate C. gilva


Posted by Sezima on 25-12-2010 22:08
#9

Thank you Reinoud.

David