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 Tachinid for ID, N Spain
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| Piluca_Alvarez |
Posted on 12-06-2012 19:31
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 Member Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 2431 Joined: 06.11.10 |
Taken in beech forest in N province of Burgos on the 10th June 2012. Help, please! 
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| Piluca_Alvarez |
Posted on 12-06-2012 19:32
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Member Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 2431 Joined: 06.11.10 |
Another view.
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| Piluca_Alvarez |
Posted on 12-06-2012 19:32
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Member Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 2431 Joined: 06.11.10 |
And another.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 12-06-2012 20:02
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Female Meigenia, I think - note the short, erect apicals - usually parallel 
Edited by ChrisR on 12-06-2012 20:02 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Piluca_Alvarez |
Posted on 13-06-2012 19:49
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Member Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 2431 Joined: 06.11.10 |
Thanks sooooo much, Chris!! Very interesting what you tell me about the apicals But I guess it is a difficult genus. I believe I should leave it as Meigenia sp. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 13-06-2012 20:30
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
The females are not possible to identify - even with a specimen - the males are done on male genitalia mainly so ... Males are dark/black-brown but the females are usually this grey-dusted colour. Again, it might be something else but to me it looks like a female Meigenia
Edited by ChrisR on 13-06-2012 20:32 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Piluca_Alvarez |
Posted on 13-06-2012 20:43
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Member Location: Madrid, Spain Posts: 2431 Joined: 06.11.10 |
I totally trust your opinion, Chris And Meigenia sp. looks very convincing to me Unless somebody says something else, I will call this one a female Meigenia sp.  |
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