Posted by tristram on 23-11-2011 00:56
#1
From July 2009 what I think is a
Tephritis sp.
Photos taken in Reading UK, on 2009-07-21 and 2009-07-26. No obvious host plants - it was on the window of a 2nd floor flat that is surrounded by horse chestnut trees and lawns.
Initially I thought it might be
T. matricariae (which seems to have colonized SE England in the past decade) but now I think the wing patterns don't look quite right for that. So then I thought maybe
T. praecox but that seems to be quite rare in England. Now I am just confused.
Edited by tristram on 23-11-2011 18:44
Posted by Nosferatumyia on 23-11-2011 15:01
#6
Indeed. Not too much unexpected: this species has been listed for the UK (White 1988).
Posted by tristram on 23-11-2011 18:20
#7
Thankyou Saeed and Valery!
(What I meant by
T. praecox being 'rare' was it appears in only 6 10-km squares on Laurence Clemon's 2008 Updated Distribution Maps of the Tephritidae (Diptera) of Britain and Ireland, whereas
T. matricariae appears in 44.)
Edited by tristram on 23-11-2011 18:39