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 Tachinidae ID => Macquartia grisea
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| tristram |
Posted on 12-03-2012 01:15
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
I think this is a Macquartia grisea, male. Am I correct? If so then it is my first Tachinid of the year. Initially I dismissed it as just another Muscid but on a second look I noticed the long hairs on the abdomen. Photo taken in Reading, UK on 2012-03-11. tristram attached the following image:  [178.42Kb] Edited by tristram on 13-10-2012 23:32 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 13-03-2012 19:13
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hard to say from 1 photo but I think it might be too early for any Macquartia spp. Do you have more photos?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 13-03-2012 19:13
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hard to say from 1 photo but I think it might be too early for any Macquartia spp. Do you have more photos?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| tristram |
Posted on 13-03-2012 20:43
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Unfortunately my only other photo was from the same angle and rather blurred. I based my identification/guess on similarity with a photo by Tim Worfolk here: http://www.dipter...ost_131725 I'll go up and see if I can get any more photos later this week. [Note added later: The following thread confirms that M. grisea was present in the same area only a few weeks later : http://www.dipter...d_id=46398 ] Edited by tristram on 13-10-2012 23:35 |
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