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| Stephen R |
Posted on 05-10-2010 00:17
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 Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
3.3mm, Cltheroe UK, 4 October Can anyone help me with this please? Sorry the photos aren't better. Stephen R attached the following image:  [100.72Kb] Edited by Stephen R on 05-10-2010 09:26 |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 05-10-2010 00:18
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 05-10-2010 00:19
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 05-10-2010 00:42
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 Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07 |
Cinochira atra (Tachinidae) |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 05-10-2010 09:25
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Thanks Rui! They do say that rules exist to be broken  |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-10-2010 09:50
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
That's a really good find - well done They're pretty rare ... but that's probably just because they are so small that hardly anyone sees them  Will you be sending the record to me with your other tach recs for this year?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 05-10-2010 10:00
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Yes I'll do that. Paracraspedothrix is still with us too, though I hardly saw them till the leaf-fall started. I suspect they spend most of their time above head height. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-10-2010 10:25
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Great - thanks That's an interesting observation regarding Paracraspedothrix ... they usually inhabit damp, wooded areas so perhaps leaf-litter really suits them.
Edited by ChrisR on 05-10-2010 10:25 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| conopid |
Posted on 05-10-2010 14:52
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 Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
Interestingly, I swept a Paracraspdothrix off an ash tree in my suburban garden last week. Swept from about 4 metres height. Will try sweeping again soon to see if there are any more.
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-10-2010 16:31
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
If you go by the collecting data damp driveways and kitchen windows are habitats that are just as likely to yield Paracraspedothrix The only one I found here had flown into my car when I got in and was caught on the car window
Edited by ChrisR on 05-10-2010 16:32 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 05-10-2010 18:47
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19308 Joined: 21.07.04 |
and this is rulebreaker number 1 indeed. Theo |
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