Posted by nick upton on 02-01-2011 00:25
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Can anyone confirm my tenative ID of this male Panorpa. Thanks to some sketches on Tim Workfolk's excellent blog http://thetopshamnaturalist.blogspot.com I THINK the hypovalves fit this species better than the other possibles. Maybe too wide and flared to be P. commnunis, and it seems P germanica is the commonest in southwest of the UK.
9th June 2010 Wiltshire garden, UK c 15mm