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 UK Tachinid for ID => Melanomyia nana
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 11-07-2014 14:55
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
I think this might be Gastrolepta anthracina, but I'm not at all sure. Please help. Found on 1 July 2014 on a Fuchsia bush in the garden, here in Ipswich, Suffolk, TM166450. Body length about 4mm. Regards, Martin Martin Cooper attached the following image:  [191.53Kb] Edited by Martin Cooper on 11-07-2014 17:41 |
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 11-07-2014 14:56
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
side view
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 11-07-2014 14:56
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
Back of thorax
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 11-07-2014 14:57
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another side view
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 11-07-2014 14:58
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head close-up
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 11-07-2014 14:59
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
face
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 11-07-2014 15:00
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back of abdomen
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 11-07-2014 16:59
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18539 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Melanomyia nana (Calliphoridae) Theo |
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 11-07-2014 17:41
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
Aaah! Thanks Theo. I thought it didn't look quite right for Gastrolepta, but didn't know where to look for a better match. Best wishes, Martin |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 11-07-2014 18:54
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yeah, no subscutellum so it can't be a tachinid ... (true 99% of the time) 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Martin Cooper |
Posted on 11-07-2014 21:52
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
Is it Melanomyia nana or Melanomya nana? |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 12-07-2014 08:11
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18539 Joined: 21.07.04 |
I always write ' myia', no matter what Rondani or the taxonomic police tells me to do. Mistakes are there to be corrected in science, in my opinion. See (very ) old threads on this topic for a ful comment Theo |
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| ValerioW |
Posted on 12-07-2014 08:43
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 Member Location: Padova - Italy Posts: 982 Joined: 01.06.12 |
Zeegers wrote: I always write ' myia', no matter what Rondani or the taxonomic police tells me to do. Mistakes are there to be corrected in science, in my opinion. See (very ) old threads on this topic for a ful comment Theo There're many flies with this "typo" (was really a typo? Wasn't it just sign of ignorance about ancient greek?), in different families (I recently found one, but cannot remember if was a soldierfly or a muscid). Dunno if most of us know it, but the reason why "mya" is wrong is because "mya" is supposed to stay for "fly" in greek, that is actually written "μυῖα" (read: myia...ignore the circumlfex accent). So "mya" is wrong! |
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