Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Siphona geniculata (?), Family Tachinidae (Anthomyiidae?), 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
This looks close to Siphona geniculata, but mine has dark banks across the abdomen with blotches between. All the pics I have found don't have those. They are very distinctive if anyone knows this genus!

http://popgen.unimaas.nl/~jlindsey/commanster/Insects/Flies/...

http://tachinidae.org.uk/site/get-species.php?brcno=15305

http://www.gardensafari.net/pics/vliegen/overig/siphona_geni...

http://www.gardensafari.net/english/remaining_flies.htm

http://www.pbase.com/richard2051/image/70126979

Their food source Hieracium I had a 'lawn' full of until it was mowed yesterday.

A google image search for Siphona only brings up nothing.

http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/aol/image?query=Siphona &invocati...

The Tachinidae site has 11 species of Siphona listed.

http://www.tachinidae.org.uk/site/get-list.php?search=*&targ...

S. boreata, collini, confusa, cristata, geniculata, hokkaidensis, ingerae, maculata, pauciseta, setosa, variata.

Under the previous name of Siphona cristata it still has a plain abdomen.

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/HTML/P5/P59464.php

I thought Siphona maculata sounded promising as it has blotches, not a picture anywhere.