KAREN'S GALLERY (est. 2005)

Tachinid Fly (Tachinidae)

4/30/12 PL DE "Most of the time you can separate Oestroidea from Muscoidea by the shape of vein M. On this fly it is sharply bent towards R4+5." - John F. Carr, 10 May, 2012
- 2:02pm Brassy color like yellow/gold dung flies (which it can't be anyway) but narrow part between eyes like Leskiini, which it has a chance of being. Pictures suck. Will never know for sure. That's life.
-Tachinid fly wing venation:
http://tachinidae.org.uk/blog/?page_id=809
-There are several superfamilies of flies.
Two of them are Muscoidea and Scathophagidae.

1) superfamily of flies called Muscoidea contains Scathophagidae (Dung Flies).
If my fly is a Tachinid, it can't be a Dung Fly, which is ok, because I was using it as example for color and I didn't like the eyes on it anyway.

2) superfamily of flies called Oestroidea contains Tachinidae (Tachinid Flies).
If my fly is a Tachinidae, I can ignore all others.

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