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 Blue Tachinid => Dufouria sp
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| tristram |
Posted on 17-05-2011 19:13
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1329 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Photographed in a field near Reading, UK, on 2011-05-16. I suspect it might be a Melinda sp. Can anyone confirm or correct this?
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| tristram |
Posted on 17-05-2011 19:14
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1329 Joined: 27.06.10 |
And from another angle:
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 17-05-2011 20:12
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 Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
With these hairy eyes, never a calliphorid ! My guess is Dufouria, Tachinidae. Stephane. |
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| tristram |
Posted on 17-05-2011 20:32
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1329 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Thanks Stephane. I will change the title to attract the Tachinid specialists. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 17-05-2011 20:39
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, I agree - it looks to me like the ones that I have been calling Dufouria (chalybeata?) recently: EDIT: this one was caught a few miles from Reading, at Hartslock reserve 
Edited by ChrisR on 17-05-2011 20:40 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| tristram |
Posted on 17-05-2011 20:57
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1329 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Yes that looks a match. Mine was in a field below Chazey Wood which is 5 or 6km from Hartslock, eastwards along the Thames path. |
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