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| Jussi Koistinen |
Posted on 21-05-2011 00:08
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Member Location: Finland Posts: 21 Joined: 19.02.11 |
Hi, found this one yesterday. I hope it this time looks more like a Lypha? Espoo, southern Finland. greetings, Jussi Jussi Koistinen attached the following image:  [106.34Kb] |
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| Jussi Koistinen |
Posted on 21-05-2011 00:09
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Member Location: Finland Posts: 21 Joined: 19.02.11 |
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Jussi Koistinen attached the following image:  [178.03Kb] |
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| Jaakko |
Posted on 22-05-2011 14:45
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 Member Location: Joensuu, Finland Posts: 479 Joined: 04.08.08 |
Correct, well done.  |
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| Jussi Koistinen |
Posted on 22-05-2011 17:04
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Member Location: Finland Posts: 21 Joined: 19.02.11 |
Thanks! I can now get more seriously into these things as i have got a key from a very helpful and generous source. Different features become also more distinctive between species as you pay more time looking at them. Jussi |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-05-2011 19:43
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I have always found Lypha dubia to be a fairly awkward tachinid to identify with a high degree of confidence ... until you have seen lots of them. They are very anonymous but under a microscope they are pretty easy to confirm from the equal-sized flaps on the metathoracic spiracle combined with a large pteropleural bristle. I think only Lypha and Lydina have this combination in Europe (belonging to the tribe Polideini) ... though I am willing to be corrected 
Edited by ChrisR on 22-05-2011 19:43 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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