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 Whats this beauty? => Eriothrix rufomaculata
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| Trond |
Posted on 06-08-2011 06:57
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 Member Location: Norway Posts: 180 Joined: 24.05.08 |
Can anyone tell me what this is? Beautiful fly from my garden in southern norway 25.07.
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| Trond |
Posted on 06-08-2011 07:23
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Member Location: Norway Posts: 180 Joined: 24.05.08 |
Eriothrix rufomaculata? (Eriothrix rufomaculatus?)
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 06-08-2011 09:25
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes - rufomaculata 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Trond |
Posted on 06-08-2011 09:31
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Member Location: Norway Posts: 180 Joined: 24.05.08 |
Thank you Chris. I wonder why on the norwegian site for registring finds, names often differ from the names here... Like on this one... :/
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 06-08-2011 16:50
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
My understanding is that Latin words have gender-specific endings, which *should* match the gender of the genus. The problem is that often the original author gets the ending wrong and so species names can be corrected at a later date - leading to a little confusion 
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 06-08-2011 21:50
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 Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
http://www.dipter...d_id=40616 for a recent discussion of this. |
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