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 Fly for ID
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| PeterD |
Posted on 31-08-2010 14:51
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
Can anyone help ID this fly. It seems to have a very long tongue (like a bee). Click here for larger image>>http://www.imagei...pJc-XL.jpg Photographed today at Plant Farm, Waterlooville, Hampshire, UK. Thanks Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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| nielsyese |
Posted on 31-08-2010 15:05
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 Member Location: Yerseke, NL Posts: 2381 Joined: 13.02.09 |
Probably Rhingia campestris. |
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| PeterD |
Posted on 01-09-2010 11:22
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
Nielsyese wrote: Probably Rhingia campestris. Thank you 
Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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| Mark-uk |
Posted on 01-09-2010 16:50
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 Member Location: UK - Hampshire Posts: 792 Joined: 01.02.10 |
It is Rhingia campestris the only other UK Rhingia is Rhingia rostrata - that does not have the darkness on the sides of the abdomen, and the scutellum tends to be more orange in living specimens. It is also generally slightly smaller and with a marginally shorter 'beak', thought these latter two features are not so clear in the felid, one needs specimens side by side to really notice. |
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| PeterD |
Posted on 01-09-2010 17:12
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
Mark-uk wrote: It is Rhingia campestris the only other UK Rhingia is Rhingia rostrata - that does not have the darkness on the sides of the abdomen, and the scutellum tends to be more orange in living specimens. It is also generally slightly smaller and with a marginally shorter 'beak', thought these latter two features are not so clear in the felid, one needs specimens side by side to really notice. Thank you Mark for your explanation. This is the first time I have ever come across Rhingia. Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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| Mark-uk |
Posted on 01-09-2010 17:32
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Member Location: UK - Hampshire Posts: 792 Joined: 01.02.10 |
I have seen very few of them in Hampshire this year. |
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