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Allophorocera rufipes?
ChrisR	#1 Posted on 05-09-2009 18:17
Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04	Another Bavarian tachinid (July/August 2001) that keys to something rare. Am I close? ChrisR attached the following image: [52.05Kb] Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


ChrisR	#2 Posted on 05-09-2009 18:18
Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04	another angle... ChrisR attached the following image: [53.94Kb] Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


ChrisR	#3 Posted on 05-09-2009 18:18
Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04	another angle... ChrisR attached the following image: [52.49Kb] Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


Jaakko	#4 Posted on 06-09-2009 19:12
Member Location: Joensuu, Finland Posts: 479 Joined: 04.08.08	Can very well be! Never seen this one, only ferruginea, but the legs look characteristic. Congratulations!


ChrisR	#5 Posted on 06-09-2009 19:17
Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04	Thanks I was just lucky to be given an exceptionally good Malaise trap sample from Bavaria ... well, good in species, if not in quality of specimens! This sample yielded Tachina nigrohirta too, which I understand is very rare. The only problem with rare stuff is that I doubt my determination, if I haven't seen it before and if the key is a bit ambiguous in its descriptions and confirmatory characters. But you're right, in this case the legs do look spot-on for this species. Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.