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| blowave |
Posted on 12-09-2010 21:35
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 Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Hello, This one has me a little stumped, I only got one pic of it. I'm not sure of the size but it could have been anything between 4 to 6mm. Taken on 8th September 2010, my garden a few miles south of Lincoln UK. A family would be good, a genus even better, thanks! Maybe this is Calliopum sp.? Janet 
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 12-09-2010 21:48
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9555 Joined: 24.05.05 |
It is Muscid, Hydrotaea, probably aenescens.
Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| blowave |
Posted on 13-09-2010 00:20
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Thank you Nikita, that was a surprise. I have looked at your pics in the gallery, they look black. Is mine green for any particular reason, maybe what it has fed on? It doesn't look to be newly emerged but maybe it is. It looks like a gravid female. Hydrotaea aenescens is an imported alien here, it is listed on the NBN Gateway but there is no distribution map. It seems the larva are used for fishing bait, there are fishing lakes not far away but there's also horses around. I rarely see house flies.. 
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