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 Anthomyiidae Anthomyia > Anthomyia procellaris female
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| blowave |
Posted on 23-05-2011 13:57
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 Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Hello, Is it possible to say which this is? I only have one shot of it, but it shows the bristles well. 20th May, my garden near Lincoln UK. Janet blowave attached the following image:  [134.2Kb] Edited by blowave on 23-05-2011 17:00 http://cubits.org... |
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| blowave |
Posted on 23-05-2011 13:57
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
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blowave attached the following image:  [102.11Kb] http://cubits.org... |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 23-05-2011 14:29
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 Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Hi Janet.  I'm afraid the bristles don't get you all the way with these ones - it's a male genitalia job (if you'll pardon the expression). If you found a male with spots and bristles just like this one, we could narrow it down to A. procellaris or A. bazini (which look identical). The key says nothing about females  |
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| blowave |
Posted on 23-05-2011 14:44
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Hi Stephen. I have pics of a male from a month or so ago, but the pattern on the scutellum is different with only a small white area. I didn't realise there was another species which looked like pluvialis/procellaris!  Now I'm wondering it the male I had is pluvialis, maybe I should post that one too.
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| Michael Ackland |
Posted on 23-05-2011 16:40
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Member Location: Dorset UK Posts: 680 Joined: 23.02.08 |
Anthomyia procellaris female |
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| blowave |
Posted on 23-05-2011 16:59
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Michael Ackland wrote: Anthomyia procellaris female Wow, that's great! Thanks Michael, we don't have a female in the gallery. 
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 23-05-2011 19:29
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Michael, can we stop thinking about A. bazini in Britain now, or is there a way to distinguish them visually? |
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| Michael Ackland |
Posted on 24-05-2011 10:14
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Member Location: Dorset UK Posts: 680 Joined: 23.02.08 |
I guessed that it was unlikely to be bazini in Lincoln! Apart from an old record (1941)of 1 male from Worcs, it is only known recently from Merioneth. See my paper, 2007, Dipterists Digest 13:97-100, Anthomyia bazini Seguy (Diptera, Anthomyiidae) rediscovered in Britain after 65 years. One could identify bazini males from the 5th sternite ; apart from that it is almost identical to procellaris. I assumed the female was procellaris because it is very common, and the black postsutural spot reaches the wing base, unlike pluvialis. I c an only see about 5 ad-setae on the hind tibia of the female in the enlarged photo, imbrida generally has more. |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 24-05-2011 13:48
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Thank you - I didn't realise it was so local. |
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| blowave |
Posted on 24-05-2011 14:00
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Thanks for the pointers Michael, now I know what to look for. I'll be trying to snap every angle I can get of these!
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