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 Fly for ID
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| PeterD |
Posted on 29-09-2010 23:15
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
Can anyone please help ID this fly? Click here for larger image >> http://www.imagei...q-XL-1.jpg  Click here for larger image >> http://www.imagei...8-XL-1.jpg Thank you Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 29-09-2010 23:28
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Siphona - probably geniculata 
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 30-09-2010 02:18
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
ChrisR wrote: Siphona - probably geniculata Thank you Chris 
Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 30-09-2010 08:37
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
No problem - you can see the folded proboscis protruding forwards under the head. Also, in the UK there are only a few species that have bristles on T1+2 and only one that looks that muddy-brown, I think ... but they are a very difficult genus At some point I should update the British key because there are a few inaccuracies but I am really unsure where to go with it because the alternative (Andersen) is highly complex ... I will probably add lots of secondary features
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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