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| PeterD |
Posted on 24-09-2010 22:07
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
Can anyone help ID this fly please? Click here for larger image >> http://www.imagei...HUo-XL.jpg  Click here for larger image >> http://www.imagei...wCq-XL.jpg  Click here for larger image >> http://www.imagei...HuD-XL.jpg Thank you Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 24-09-2010 22:13
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
An impressive Tachinidae....for the calypterate loving boys and girls
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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| blowave |
Posted on 24-09-2010 22:20
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 Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Hi Peter, This is Tachina fera, the only Tachina sp. we have here. Janet 
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| PeterD |
Posted on 24-09-2010 22:40
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
rvanderweele wrote: An impressive Tachinidae....for the calypterate loving boys and girls Thank you for your reply
Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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| PeterD |
Posted on 24-09-2010 22:42
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
blowave wrote: Hi Peter, This is Tachina fera, the only Tachina sp. we have here. Janet Thank you for your ID Janet . I had discounted this due to the lack of orange markings on the abdomen.
Edited by PeterD on 24-09-2010 22:42 Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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| blowave |
Posted on 24-09-2010 23:02
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
The abdomen is orange apart from a broad black mark down the middle, the wings are obscuring most of it. It's a pretty distinctive fly with nothing else that looks like it here.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-09-2010 09:00
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
blowave wrote:This is Tachina fera, the only Tachina sp. we have here. Hi Janet You are of course correct with the ID ... but there are 3 other Tachina spp. in the UK (grossa, ursina & lurida) - none of which look like this  Also if you ever get a Tachina in the UK with dark front tarsi then you might have the first T.magnicornis for the UK. Also, we can never discount Peleteria rubescens, which has been recorded twice in the UK - but can be eliminated in this case by the lack of Peleteria-bristles between the lower eye edge and the mouth
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| PeterD |
Posted on 25-09-2010 09:15
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
Thanks for your comments and information Chris
Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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