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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Robber Flies (Asilidae) » Asilid Pupal Cases/Larvae/Eggs
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Tachinid larva?
Copyright © 2012 tom murray

Tachinid larva?
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 15, 2012
Several of these larvae looked to be feeding on Buprestid larvae under bark of an oak log with tight bark.

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Tachinid larva? Tachinid larva?
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Contributed by tom murray on 15 September, 2012 - 10:11pm
Last updated 19 January, 2017 - 1:44pm

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Immature Stages.
… Martin Hauser, 19 January, 2017 - 1:44pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 13 October, 2012 - 9:47pm login or register to post comments

Probably Asilidae
I don't think the previous comments are correct...I think this is an Orthorrhapha, probably Asilidae, because some of them live in rotting wood. They are also predaceous. I don't think it is a cyclorrhaphan as there is too much sclerotization in the head area, and the black structure visible in the first thoracic segment looks like tentorial rods rather than a cephalopharyngeal skeleton.. A more lateral view of the posterior segment would be necessary to confirm Asilidae
… Norm Woodley, 18 September, 2012 - 10:38am login or register to post comments

Tachinid larvae do not live outside the host, i guess
update: Valery Korneyev says this is not a 'nematoceran' or an 'otrhorrhaphan'; options include predatory subcortical lonchaeids & pallopterids [no external features to separate the larvae]
… v belov, 16 September, 2012 - 11:36am login or register to post comments

 
I brought it home along with several Buprestid larvae to try and rear the fly and find out what it is. Should this be moved to the Tephritoidea page?
… tom murray, 16 September, 2012 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Not Tephritoidea
No, this should not be moved because it certainly isn't a lonchaeid or pallopterid
… Norm Woodley, 18 September, 2012 - 10:40am login or register to post comments

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