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 Conopidae ID => Conops quadrifasciatus
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| tristram |
Posted on 24-07-2011 00:29
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 676 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Photographed in Reading, UK, on 2011-07-23. Both have a long thin proboscis so they must be Conops not Leopoldius. But which Conops species are they? tristram attached the following image:  [165.29Kb] Edited by tristram on 24-07-2011 17:24 |
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| tristram |
Posted on 24-07-2011 00:29
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 676 Joined: 27.06.10 |
And from above.
tristram attached the following image:  [183.62Kb] |
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| tristram |
Posted on 24-07-2011 17:23
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 676 Joined: 27.06.10 |
With the help of Mark van Veen's Conopid key (http://home.hccne...index.html), I now think these are Conops quadrifasciatus. Of the Conops species on the UK list (http://www.dipter...p?id=11957): the all-pale femurs 2+3 exclude C. caeriformis, vesicularis and strigatus (vesicularis would also be reddish). The black scutellum and the just-visible 'silver stripe' on the thorax (just behind the wing bases) exclude C. flavipes. |
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