This is image of Tachinid fly, I found it in Western ghats of Maharashtra.While studying it, I found different wing pattern elaborate as,
- Cell R6 is having bifurcation in between R5 cell and R4+5.
-It looks like double HIND MARGIN of same wing.
Kindly suggest me Pattern name of wing and details about given image.
Thank you GD
Dear Abhijit, please contact Prof. Virakthamath, Emeritus, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru, for expert answers. He is the renowned entomo-taxonomist in India. good luck
Fascinating! It looks very strange to me. Do you have more than one specimen with the wing venation? Otherwise I would think it is a developmental anomaly. The website diptera.info has a large discussion forum and you'll find several Tachinidae taxonomists there.
Dear Abhijit,
wing venation could be very variable, even within one specimen. I found dragonflies with conciderable differences between left and right hindwing. Please check more specimens if you didn't jet.
You can try to contact Olivier Béthoux at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France - he is a specialist on wing venation in insects.
Good luck!
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