Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinid ?

Posted by LordV on 09-04-2007 20:10
#1

Fly about 9mm long taken today South Coast UK.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Brian V.

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Posted by eguzki on 09-04-2007 20:22
#2

I would say it's Sarcophagidae rather.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 09-04-2007 20:41
#3

sarcophagidae

Posted by Zeegers on 10-04-2007 17:36
#4

Indeed.

It's a Amobia.
2-3 species around, only distinguishable by the male genitalia.
This is a male, so
did you collect it ?
Otherwise, it will remain Amobia spec., I'm afraid.


Theo Zeegers

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 10-04-2007 17:43
#5

fooled by red traffic eyes. :S and for abdomen. It was so convincent to be a Sarcophagidae fly!
How can we distinguish here apart Sarcophagidae/Tachinidae?
Subscutellum is not easily visible...


* Theo, please see email. :)

Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 10-04-2007 17:55

Posted by crex on 10-04-2007 18:51
#6

jorgemotalmeida wrote:
fooled by red traffic eyes. :S and for abdomen. It was so convincent to be a Sarcophagidae fly!
How can we distinguish here apart Sarcophagidae/Tachinidae?
Subscutellum is not easily visible...


* Theo, please see email. :)


As far as I can tell - Amobia belongs to Sarcophagidae!

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 10-04-2007 20:19
#7

:S lol forget... :o
I confirmed that now. :S I don?t know why, but when I read zeegers message, I read really in some way the word Tachinidae. :S

Posted by Zeegers on 11-04-2007 17:30
#8

My 'indeed' referred to 'Sarcophagidae'

So Jorge did get the trafficlight-red eyes splendidly !

Theo

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 11-04-2007 23:40
#9

lol. as it was hard.. :P

the hard is really to separate some Rhinophoridae and Tachinidae flies..