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1 Species ID Suggestions

arlanda
arlanda 10 years ago
Gonia vacua
Gonia vacua Gonia (fly)


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bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Gonia vacua or Gonia sp. might be another candidate, although I have the impression of the dark stripe being to slim and too "regular" compared to the one from Jopy. But this is only what my eyes see...

Jopy
Jopy 10 years ago

Ok, Thank you guys! I will check all your suggestions :)

arlanda
arlanda 10 years ago

Check Gonia vacua, I have a very similar spotting:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/244...

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Definitely a Tachinidae. My closest guess would be Echinomyia fera or Tachina magnicornis, which a tendency to Echinomyia fera due to the missing "whitish" area at the end of the body. But I do not know how important this part would be.
http://www.fotocommunity.de/search?q=Ech...
http://www.fotocommunity.de/search?q=Ech...
http://www.chili-balkon.de/viecher/echin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachina_fe...
http://www.biolib.cz/en/image/id62424/
A link with both:
http://www.veluwe-insecten.nl/vliegen/ta...

Sintija Valucka
Sintija Valucka 10 years ago

I found a similar looking fly, but it's hard to identify them (at least I have some problems) :D There is a chance that they belong to Tachinidae family (at least there are some flies in this this family who have something orange on the abdomen) ;)

Jopy
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Jopy

Croatia

Spotted on Apr 11, 2014
Submitted on Apr 11, 2014

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