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 Nice eyed fly-what is it?<Tephritidae..Dioxyna bidentis <ID -Ben Hamers
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 17-09-2008 16:57
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5269 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Photographed this afternoon in my garden. Anyone put a name to this little beauty? Size approx-5-6mm. sorry about the quality but its blowing a gale here at the moment/again!!!!
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 17-09-2008 16:59
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5269 Joined: 17.07.08 |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 17-09-2008 21:50
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9558 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Not Sciomyzidae - Tephritidae
Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 17-09-2008 22:27
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5269 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Hi Nikita Thanks for the info. I looked through the Gallery, ( a slow and painful experience)  and saw the Sciomyzidae and thought that was it as I have one species on my list-no Tephritidae  . Oh well.Regards Roger |
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| David Clements |
Posted on 18-09-2008 08:55
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Member Location: Cardiff, UK Posts: 80 Joined: 21.04.07 |
I would guess that this is a Paroxyna species. |
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| Ben Hamers |
Posted on 18-09-2008 18:52
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Member Location: Heerlen ( Holland ) Posts: 739 Joined: 16.12.04 |
Dioxyna bidentis Ben |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 18-09-2008 20:21
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5269 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Thanks Ben and everybody else, in getting to an ID on this great looking fly  .Appreciate the input.Regards Roger. ANOTHER new species for the list  |
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 19-09-2008 20:51
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Sorry, it is a Campiglossa (= Paroxyna) of the doronici complex, probably from the mountains (if a European one). Please idicate where it is from, it would facilitate ID
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 19-09-2008 22:18
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5269 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Hello Valery Just when I thought this was done and dusted, up pops another name. The fly was photographed in my garden in Mossbank, Shetland Isles. We have no mountains here, the closest would be in Norway. I was out in the garden today and there are many of them feeding on Polygonum sp. flowers, but too windy to focus on them. I did get a lateral shot of one on the greenhouse which I have attached. Regards Roger Roger Thomason attached the following image:  [129.6Kb] |
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 25-09-2008 08:51
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Member Location: Posts: 3575 Joined: 28.12.07 |
Sorry Roger. The lateral view shows that this is nothing as Dioxyna bidentis R.-D., quite a subcosmopolitan fly feeding in seeds of Bidens spp.
Edited by Nosferatumyia on 25-09-2008 08:52 Val |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 25-09-2008 14:13
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5269 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Thanks Valery That certainly clears things up  . D bidentis it is.Regards Roger |
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