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1 Species ID Suggestions

arlanda
arlanda 9 years ago
Gonia vacua
Gonia vacua Gonia (fly)


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bayucca
bayucca 9 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 9 years ago

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

arlanda
arlanda 9 years ago

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

bayucca
bayucca 9 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 9 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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