Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 two flies for iD if possible
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| Toby |
Posted on 12-05-2010 20:16
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 Member Location: SW LONDON Posts: 552 Joined: 12.01.07 |
don't know if this is a sepsidae, it was displaying and briefly attracted interest, around 3mm and this bristly fly about 4mm, both SW London near river Thames 
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-05-2010 20:39
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
As they are unrelated you had better put them in different threads. Top one: Saltella sphondylii. Bottom one is tachinid... Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 12-05-2010 21:06
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 Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Top one is Piophilidae, maybe Allopiophila luteata. The second one is Gastrolepta anthracina if I'm not wrong. Stephane. |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 12-05-2010 21:07
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 Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Let me try: tachinid might be Gastrolepta anthracina. Hope the experts won't laugh too much... |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 12-05-2010 21:08
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Stephane was a bit faster  ! Had the same idea, however, so I feel better.
Edited by Sundew on 12-05-2010 21:10 |
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| Toby |
Posted on 12-05-2010 21:10
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Member Location: SW LONDON Posts: 552 Joined: 12.01.07 |
got to page 7 of the Tachinidae gallery when received email that the bottom picture is Medina collaris (page 14) which looks a good match.
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| Toby |
Posted on 12-05-2010 21:16
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Member Location: SW LONDON Posts: 552 Joined: 12.01.07 |
Sundew wrote: Let me try: tachinid might be Gastrolepta anthracina. Hope the experts won't laugh too much... well that looks similar too (p.9) so now i await final judgment... Toby |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 12-05-2010 21:26
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
The dusting of the thorax is more like Gastrolepta than Medina. Medina's antennae also look a bit bigger. However, Theo or Chris will have the final decision! |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 12-05-2010 22:01
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I don't see many around here but my first idea was Gastrolepta anthracina 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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