Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tiny bristly fly
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| Sandy |
Posted on 08-06-2010 18:43
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Member Location: South-east Scotland Posts: 132 Joined: 27.07.07 |
Can anyone identify this tiny fly? To give an idea of how small it was the flowers are ragwort (Senecio). Sandy Sandy attached the following image:  [194.82Kb] |
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| Sandy |
Posted on 08-06-2010 18:45
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Member Location: South-east Scotland Posts: 132 Joined: 27.07.07 |
Here's another shot.
Sandy attached the following image:  [103.66Kb] |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 08-06-2010 18:56
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Tachinidae
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 08-06-2010 19:16
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I'd guess that it is a small Siphona sp. (it seems to have a long, hinged proboscis in the last photo) 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Sandy |
Posted on 08-06-2010 22:25
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Member Location: South-east Scotland Posts: 132 Joined: 27.07.07 |
Thanks Guys! I thought it might be too small for a tachinid but it did have that bristly abdomen they all seem to have! |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 08-06-2010 22:32
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Sizes of just UK tachinids run from about 2mm to over 2cm 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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