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 Bluish Sarcophagid
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 15-11-2010 17:59
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 Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
est. 6-7mm, Clitheroe UK, 14 August 2010. I got excited (well, slightly  ) about this because it looked a bit like Brachycoma devia and was on the ground close to a nest of Bombus lapidarius.Sadly though, it has a plumose arista. Does this put it back in Sarcophagini? Stephen R attached the following image:  [97.51Kb] |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 15-11-2010 18:02
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
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Stephen R attached the following image:  [75.42Kb] |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 15-11-2010 22:10
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19308 Joined: 21.07.04 |
yes But Brachycoma devia is by no means rare. It should be relatively easy to get them in July - August. Your feature, the bluish colouration, is usually an excellent guideline... but not always. Theo |
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| Mark-uk |
Posted on 16-11-2010 00:16
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 Member Location: UK - Hampshire Posts: 792 Joined: 01.02.10 |
should it not be Brachicoma devia? |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 16-11-2010 12:05
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Mark, I gathered from http://www.dipter...#post_8001 that Brachycoma has a bare arista, so this can't be it. I think Theo's 'yes' confirms this. Theo, my excitement was at the prospect of getting any species ident from a photo in this family! I'll have another look for Brachycoma next year. Thanks for the help. Stephen. |
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| Mark-uk |
Posted on 16-11-2010 14:23
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Member Location: UK - Hampshire Posts: 792 Joined: 01.02.10 |
My unerdanding was that it is Brachicoma, not Brachycoma? |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-11-2010 14:24
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Mark-uk wrote: My unerdanding was that it is Brachicoma, not Brachycoma? That's my understanding - I usually go by FaunaEuropaea - http://www.faunae...?id=142454
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Mark-uk |
Posted on 16-11-2010 14:34
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Member Location: UK - Hampshire Posts: 792 Joined: 01.02.10 |
I was looking in P.J. Chandler, 1998. - same result though. I will have a look in Pape, T. 1987 when I get home? |
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| Stephen R |
Posted on 16-11-2010 16:21
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Member Location: Clitheroe Lancashire UK Posts: 2396 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Oh sorry, I didn't see that you were questioning the spelling. I'm sure you are right - it's just that Brachycoma seems like better Greek, so I put it without thinking; but I've learned that the nomenclature rules don't demand good Greek  I think Theo has a similar tendency to correct the original authors' spellings. One of the handicaps of an old-fashioned education 
Edited by Stephen R on 16-11-2010 16:30 |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 16-11-2010 19:39
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19308 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Brachicoma is correct according to the taxonomic police, I write Brachycoma since it is an obvious misspelling by Rondani, as many many others and I don't want to throw away my classical eduction. See already threads on the topic. Theo |
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