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 Small tachinid (?)
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| Philippe moniotte |
Posted on 25-08-2009 10:32
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 Member Location: Heron, Belgium Posts: 865 Joined: 14.10.05 |
This fly was really small - perhaps 5 mm, if not less - but I have a hunch it is a tachnid, maybe Pandelleia sp. Any enlightened comment ?? Marche-les-dames, Belgium, in damp woods, August 24. Thanks for your help Philippe moniotte attached the following image:  [109.8Kb] Edited by Philippe moniotte on 25-08-2009 10:33 A beautiful hypothesis can be slain by an ugly fact. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-08-2009 13:41
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like Subclytia rotundiventris to me - we have had another sighting recently on the forum here. 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Philippe moniotte |
Posted on 25-08-2009 17:27
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Member Location: Heron, Belgium Posts: 865 Joined: 14.10.05 |
It does, doesn't it ? Thanks Chris. Philippe A beautiful hypothesis can be slain by an ugly fact. |
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