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 Crane Fly?
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| PeterD |
Posted on 11-10-2010 09:59
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
Can anyone help with this ID please. It has the obvious characteristics of a crane fly but I have never seen these markings before. Click here for larger image >> http://www.imagei...XAM-XL.jpg Thank you Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 11-10-2010 10:06
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Could it be Culiseta annulata - a big mosquito? Got any more angles that show a proboscis?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Philippe moniotte |
Posted on 11-10-2010 10:07
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 Member Location: Heron, Belgium Posts: 865 Joined: 14.10.05 |
Hello Peter, It looks much more like a mosquito (culicidae). Culiseta annulata, perhaps ? Philippe A beautiful hypothesis can be slain by an ugly fact. |
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| Philippe moniotte |
Posted on 11-10-2010 10:09
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Member Location: Heron, Belgium Posts: 865 Joined: 14.10.05 |
ChrisR wrote: Could it be Culiseta annulata - a big mosquito? Got any more angles that show a proboscis? The picture does show a nice big fat proboscis, don't you think ?  Philippe Edited by Philippe moniotte on 11-10-2010 11:50 A beautiful hypothesis can be slain by an ugly fact. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 11-10-2010 11:33
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Well, I was a bit confused as to whether it was a proboscis or the continuation of the right leg  But yes, there's something big pointing forwards and I suppose it is thicker than the leg could have been Well, I am just glad that I guessed the correct name anyway 
Edited by ChrisR on 11-10-2010 11:34 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 12-10-2010 06:51
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Member Location: Portsmouth UK Posts: 297 Joined: 08.11.09 |
Thank you Chris and Phillippe I had missed the proboscis entirely, thinking it was one of its front legs  I have gone through my shoot of the day and found this image which confirms everything you both said   Click here for larger image >> http://www.imagei...Lvk-XL.jpg I must also apologise for th late reply - I had NOT set this thread as a follow 
Kind regards Peter www.imageinuk.com |
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