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Tachinid Phorocera obscura?
blowave	#1 Posted on 25-12-2009 18:04
Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07	Hi, This was inmy garden on 21st May 2009, a few miles south of Lincoln UK. A quite small fly. 3 pics Janet blowave attached the following image: [95.31Kb]


blowave	#2 Posted on 25-12-2009 18:04
Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07	pic 2 blowave attached the following image: [88.32Kb]


blowave	#3 Posted on 25-12-2009 18:05
Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07	pic 3 blowave attached the following image: [97.84Kb]


ChrisR	#4 Posted on 25-12-2009 19:22
Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04	I'm really not sure but it resembles Epicampocera succincta Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


blowave	#5 Posted on 25-12-2009 20:17
Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07	Thanks Chris, I have temporarily changed the name.


Zeegers	#6 Posted on 25-12-2009 21:57
Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19036 Joined: 21.07.04	Epicampocera it is Theo


blowave	#7 Posted on 25-12-2009 22:25
Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07	Zeegers wrote: Epicampocera it is Theo And perhaps Epicampocera succincta?


blowave	#8 Posted on 25-12-2009 22:44
Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07	I've checked the UK species list, it appears we only have Epicampocera succincta here so that should be correct.


ChrisR	#9 Posted on 25-12-2009 23:52
Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04	Yes, i think the genus Epicampocera only has that species, in the world and we certainly only have succincta It is just quite easy to recognise with the hairy eyes, black palps and quite blue-black body, which of course doesn't mean it is the only species like that - but it's a fair bet Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.