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Unnamed spotting

Description:

hairy behind fly

Habitat:

close to Quercus rugosa forest, near the city. Close to a river.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Tachinid fly
Archytas sp. Tachinid Fly | What's That Bug?


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18 Comments

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 11 years ago

@Yuriana: Thank you very much for sharing the knowledge...Nice information...It always happens with increased need for food, shelter along with people mindset....Its very difficult to convince too....

YurianaMartínez
YurianaMartínez 11 years ago

thanks Francis!, i know Ashish, anyways abdomen sounds more polite than behind and its anatomically correct, thanks. And Adarsha, more details: well it is a temperate forest in Mexico City, in the mountains that sorround it, the lower part about 2700 m asl is a Quercus rugosa forest, it was on an Asteraceae species plant leaf, this site is kind of polluted with introduced plant species and cattle and agriculture, which are the main disturbances occuring here plus pollution and fragmentation, im very afraid it will disappear soon. There is a river, the last one in the city, polluted as well. And the surprise i found another pic, didnt see in detail and thought it was the same as the one i up loaded first, but its another view and the head of this fly is easier to see.

FrancisQuintana
FrancisQuintana 11 years ago

Welcome t Project Noah, excellent spotting!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Welcome Yuriana... Black thorny like part should called abdomen.

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 11 years ago

I meant details like habitat, structure etc etc..Not recommending for more photos Yuriana ...

YurianaMartínez
YurianaMartínez 11 years ago

Thanks Ashish, yes I checked up the Trachinidae family as Juan suggested and it matches the characteristics of my hairy behind fly, though i know nothing about insects. Im more into plants...Thanks for all your help people in project Noah, its the best site!! And yes, next time i have the chance to see this fly ill try to take more pics Adarsha! :)

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 years ago

Yuriana... you must trust Juan... like all of us. Juan is most expert on Insects... with us on Project Noah.

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 11 years ago

@YurianaMartinez: If u can do, pls add few more details of this fly for further documentation and readers....

YurianaMartínez
YurianaMartínez 11 years ago

thanks to Juan and Adarsha for the ID, saludos :)

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 11 years ago

YurianaMartinez : Welcome..ID given by me is correct i hope...same is suggested by Juan...

YurianaMartínez
YurianaMartínez 11 years ago

true Adarsha, thanks for the link ;)

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 11 years ago

Yeah..but still hard to capture it...:)
http://www.insectidentification.org/inse...
Check this id n hence the site...

YurianaMartínez
YurianaMartínez 11 years ago

Hola Juan! muchas gracias

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 11 years ago

Hola Yuriana. Esta es una mosca de la familia Tachinidae

YurianaMartínez
YurianaMartínez 11 years ago

it went away when it heard a noise i made on the litter. Next time ill be more quiet!

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 11 years ago

Ha ha ha...Flies are very difficult to capture...If u try more, they rotate aound your face...Front view might helped more to get the ID.

YurianaMartínez
YurianaMartínez 11 years ago

thanks Adarsha, i liked the shadow on the leaf...i wanted to take the picture of its face but it was very hard to walk and i was going to scare it...:)

Adarsha B S
Adarsha B S 11 years ago

Wow...nice spotting...

YurianaMartínez
Spotted by
YurianaMartínez

Ciudad de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico

Spotted on Oct 19, 2012
Submitted on Oct 19, 2012

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