Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Lydina aenea?
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| Smoggycb |
Posted on 20-11-2009 19:37
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Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07 |
Early May, dry grassland. Does Lydina aenea look correct?
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 20-11-2009 20:37
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Certainly a possibility  I don't see many of them but I did catch a few this year and they were all that greeny/black colour. If it keys confidently then it should be fine
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Smoggycb |
Posted on 21-11-2009 18:32
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Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07 |
Thanks for that Chris. It did key well, but I just found myself doubting the id! Always good to have an expert pass an eye over it anyway. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 21-11-2009 18:47
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Well, I do a lot better with specimens than I do with photos - I don't have the familiarity of tachs that Theo or Jaakko have but I know the keys pretty well 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Jaakko |
Posted on 23-11-2009 09:04
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 Member Location: Joensuu, Finland Posts: 479 Joined: 04.08.08 |
I think you can certainly trust your feeling on these fellows, Chris. Lydina aenea should be ok. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 23-11-2009 20:36
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19026 Joined: 21.07.04 |
The parafrontalia are characteristically blackish in Lydina, you can check, but I have little doubts too. Theo |
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