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 [ID] Two flies from UK, please
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| Jason G |
Posted on 02-04-2010 01:37
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 Member Location: London UK Posts: 136 Joined: 22.12.08 |
Good morning all, This is my first post, so I'm bound to do something silly - so I'll apologise in advance of that!  Both were photographed in the spring of 2009, in London UK. Any help on these appreciated  Take care, Jason  This is Fly 1, in Lateral view: Jason G attached the following image:  [18.62Kb] Edited by Jason G on 02-04-2010 01:43 London's Insects http://londoninve...hostia.com |
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| Jason G |
Posted on 02-04-2010 01:41
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Member Location: London UK Posts: 136 Joined: 22.12.08 |
Fly 1 dorsal:
Jason G attached the following image:  [26.75Kb] Edited by Jason G on 02-04-2010 01:44 London's Insects http://londoninve...hostia.com |
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| Jason G |
Posted on 02-04-2010 01:41
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Member Location: London UK Posts: 136 Joined: 22.12.08 |
...and the second fly:
Jason G attached the following image:  [43Kb] Edited by Jason G on 02-04-2010 01:42 London's Insects http://londoninve...hostia.com |
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| Jason G |
Posted on 02-04-2010 01:42
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Member Location: London UK Posts: 136 Joined: 22.12.08 |
...and a second shot of my second fly:
Jason G attached the following image:  [32.45Kb] London's Insects http://londoninve...hostia.com |
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| tim worfolk |
Posted on 02-04-2010 05:09
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 Member Location: Devon, England Posts: 737 Joined: 05.05.09 |
Hi Jason, welcome to Diptera.info. Don't worry about doing anything silly, some of us (myself e.g.) make a habit of it. Can't help much with your flies, I'm afraid, other than that they both look like Sarcophagidae to me. In which case identification may not go further than Genus, but you never know, I'm often wrong. BTW if you limit it to one fly/sp. per post (you can always add extra photos of it) it helps avoid confusion over which is being discussed. cheers Tim |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 02-04-2010 10:33
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
The first photo made me think of Sarcophagidae too but the petiolate median vein in the second fly would be a *very* unusual (impossible?) feature for sarcophagids. I would try Ramonda spatulata for the second fly - the petiole, greenish colour and slightly shaded wing-veins would support that. I'm still a bit perplexed by the first fly though ... not sure about that
Edited by ChrisR on 02-04-2010 10:34 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| tim worfolk |
Posted on 02-04-2010 10:48
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Member Location: Devon, England Posts: 737 Joined: 05.05.09 |
Of course, Ramonda spathulata, I thought I'd seen that one before. Tim |
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| Jason G |
Posted on 02-04-2010 13:18
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Member Location: London UK Posts: 136 Joined: 22.12.08 |
Thanks for the welcome, Tim ChrisR wrote: The first photo made me think of Sarcophagidae too but the petiolate median vein in the second fly would be a *very* unusual (impossible?) feature for sarcophagids. I would try Ramonda spatulata for the second fly - the petiole, greenish colour and slightly shaded wing-veins would support that. I'm still a bit perplexed by the first fly though ... not sure about that Maybe I need to colllect that one if I see it this year - both sexes were nearby, facing each other from about 1m. Thanks for the second! London's Insects http://londoninve...hostia.com |
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