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 Small Black Tachinid => Dufouria chalybeata
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| tristram |
Posted on 28-05-2011 16:56
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Apparently ovipositing on a beetle larva which has a fecal pellet shield. Photographed on a thistle in a field near Reading, UK, 2011-05-25.
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| tristram |
Posted on 28-05-2011 16:57
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
From the front.
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| tristram |
Posted on 28-05-2011 16:58
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
From behind.
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| neprisikiski |
Posted on 28-05-2011 17:10
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Member Location: Lithuania Posts: 876 Joined: 23.02.09 |
Sould be Dufouria chalybeata, a parasitoid of Cassida spp. (Chrysomelidae).
Edited by neprisikiski on 28-05-2011 17:14 Erikas |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 28-05-2011 17:32
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Wow - excellent photos - well done!  Yes, Dufouria chalybeata are fairly common at the moment in our area and are small, black and mainly shiny
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| tristram |
Posted on 28-05-2011 17:59
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Ah, another Dufouria. I had one of them a few days earlier. This one seemed very excited but, whenever I disturbed it, it always came back to the same spot. It was only later that I noticed the larva in the photos. Being on a thistle I presume the larva was probably that of the thistle tortoise beetle, Cassida rubiginosa. |
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