Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Phasiinae
Posted by Juergen Peters on 01-09-2005 23:00
#1
Hello!
These Tachinids are very abundant at the moment here in Ostwestfalen/Germany. Is it
Phasia aurigera?
Another one:
http://insektenin...era_M2.jpg
A female (considerably smaller) of the same species?
Posted by Jan Willem on 02-09-2005 00:46
#2
Hi J?rgen,
The first one looks quite similar to the species on the homepage of this site!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 02-09-2005 08:13
#3
Jan Willem wrote:
The first one looks quite similar to the species on the homepage of this site!
LoL, it is, and it is
aurigera.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 02-09-2005 19:35
#4
Hello, Jan and Paul!
Thanks a lot!
The first one looks quite similar to the species on the homepage of this site!
I should not have bookmarked directly to the forum... ;-)
I have here another
Phasia (?) female from 17th Sept. 2004 with a striped thorax. Is it also
P. aurigera or another species? Thanks!
Posted by Zeegers on 05-09-2005 09:53
#5
So, you have managed terrific without me !
Phasia aurigera it is, first a male, about the second one I'm not 100 % sure, and the third is a female aurigera.
But beware of quite similar aurulans !!
Theo Zeegers
Posted by Juergen Peters on 05-09-2005 22:21
#6
Hello!
Zeegers wrote:
So, you have managed terrific without me !
Phasia aurigera it is, first a male, about the second one I'm not 100 % sure, and the third is a female aurigera.
But beware of quite similar aurulans !!
Thanks a lot!
Here I have another possible
Phasia (?), photographed today here in Ostwestfalen/Germany. Most surprising was the size: it was very tiny for a
Phasia, only half or two thirds the size of the other females posted in this thread.
Here two more pictures with other small flies and a nettle moth (
Anthophila fabriciana) on it for comparison:
http://insektenin...asia_3.jpg
http://insektenin...asia_4.jpg
Posted by Zeegers on 06-09-2005 19:29
#7
Difficult to tell.
Most likely a male Ph. obesa, which would explain the size.
Ph. barbifrons is even half this size !!
Theo
Posted by Juergen Peters on 08-09-2005 17:39
#8
Hello, Theo!
Zeegers wrote:
Difficult to tell.
Most likely a male Ph. obesa, which would explain the size.
Ph. barbifrons is even half this size !!
Thanks a lot! I did not know, that there are such small
Phasia species.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 10-09-2005 23:57
#9
Today I also meet Phasia which looks like Phasia aurigera from Juergen Peters, but the shape of male's yellow spot on the thorax is a little bit different.
Around Moscow, 10sept, a lot on Aster amelloides and Solidago gigantea.
Still Phasia aurigera or related sp.?
Posted by Zeegers on 11-09-2005 17:25
#10
And there you are: Phasia aurulans male ! (not aurigera !!)
For which I warned
The shape of the spot on the thorax is indeed characteristic, as already suggested.
Theo Zeegers
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 11-09-2005 20:01
#11
Thank you Theo.
I remembered that you requested information about some Tachnida-Phasiida, but I didn't find this request.
Posted by Zeegers on 12-09-2005 11:32
#12
Look in the section 'Distribution queries'.
It was about Phasia barbifrons, a very small species (3 mm.)
Theo