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 UK Tachinidae Drino lota?
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Posted on 11-06-2011 15:11
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 893 Joined: 11.10.07 |
UK, Suffolk. Adjacent to wet fen. 11th June. Size approx 7mm I think this is Drino lota. Eyes have a few microscopic hairs, raised crossed apicals, orange palps, ocellars missing, just few black hairs behind postocular hairs. Steve sd attached the following image:  [111.88Kb] |
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Posted on 11-06-2011 15:12
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 893 Joined: 11.10.07 |
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Posted on 11-06-2011 15:12
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 893 Joined: 11.10.07 |
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Posted on 11-06-2011 16:43
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
It certainly looks quite like Drino (I don't know anything else with no ocellars) ... though it would be best to check it and even run it against the Central European key in case it is another species 
Edited by ChrisR on 11-06-2011 16:44 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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Posted on 12-06-2011 10:17
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19310 Joined: 21.07.04 |
I'm sorry to spoil the party, but the ocellars are 'missing' because they are broken off, you can clearly see the pores. Moreover, 'a few black hairs behind...' contradicts Drino lota, there should be none. Theo |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 12-06-2011 15:54
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Grr ... still, would be nice to see the specimen because it looks interesting
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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Posted on 12-06-2011 20:20
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 893 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Thanks for your comments Chris and Theo, not much chance of a party here as its 12C and raining - -good incentive to add extension tube to camera, sort out the lighting and take a series of photos for stacking For me, there is no sign of ocellar bristles, just the ocelli themselves and a pair of post ocellar bristles. It will still go in the box to Chris though Steve sd attached the following image:  [111.92Kb] |
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Posted on 12-06-2011 20:21
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 893 Joined: 11.10.07 |
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| neprisikiski |
Posted on 13-06-2011 16:03
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Member Location: Lithuania Posts: 876 Joined: 23.02.09 |
Drino lota should be ok., in all my specimens there is a row of black bristles behind the post-ocular row.
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Posted on 13-06-2011 17:58
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 893 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Thanks Erikas, the T & H key says the black hairs can vary - we only have lota in the UK anyway. I realise Theo's argument was that it might not be Drino, rather than it might not be lota |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 15-06-2011 19:20
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19310 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Clearly, I misjudged the photo I mistook the postocular setae for ocelli, and therefore the ocelli for pores of ocellar setae. My apologies, the ocelli are indeed missing. Theo |
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Posted on 20-08-2011 16:44
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 893 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Chris has now seen this specimen and confirms the id Steve |
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