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 Lydella stabulans again ? > ID by Theo as Exorista larvarum
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 30-09-2010 19:36
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Member Location: Cumbria, UK Posts: 276 Joined: 07.06.10 |
Looks very similar to the one I posted several weeks ago except that it is larger ( 10mm ) and much browner in colour. Is this just a normal variation, perhaps with age ? Again from my garden, on Michaelmas daisies. Peter peterbolson attached the following image:  [67.5Kb] Edited by peterbolson on 30-09-2010 21:44 |
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 30-09-2010 19:36
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Member Location: Cumbria, UK Posts: 276 Joined: 07.06.10 |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 30-09-2010 20:51
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19307 Joined: 21.07.04 |
To me, it looks VERY different: more brown/yellow as mentioned, scutellum largely reddish, wing venation different. Moreover, it is more elongated and the bend in vein M has an shadow-appendix. So it should be some Exorista. Given the bare eyes, lack of discal, setae and abdominal pattern, I'd say it is E. larvarum. Theo |
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 30-09-2010 21:41
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Member Location: Cumbria, UK Posts: 276 Joined: 07.06.10 |
Oh dear - just shows how much I have to learn  Many thanks for the help Theo. Peter Edited by peterbolson on 30-09-2010 21:42 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 30-09-2010 23:47
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yeah, sorry Peter - hate to gang up on you  But compare the head with a Lydella and note the mustard-yellow tint to the dusting on this one ... shouts Exorista to me 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 01-10-2010 09:12
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19307 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Keep working and you'll pick it up. We are just saying Tachinids are by no means easy.... Then again, Anthomyiidae are much worse (?) Theo |
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