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 Melanostoma or Platycheirus
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| Gerrit Oehm |
Posted on 28-12-2011 10:25
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 179 Joined: 26.11.11 |
Melanostoma or Platycheirus ... (Nothern Germany) Gerrit Oehm attached the following image:  [61.57Kb] Edited by Gerrit Oehm on 28-12-2011 15:59 |
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| Menno Reemer |
Posted on 28-12-2011 12:03
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Member Location: Posts: 343 Joined: 10.06.04 |
Melanostoma or Platycheirus |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 28-12-2011 12:22
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The shape of the terminal segments makes me suspect it is an intersex, hence the absence of markings...
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| Menno Reemer |
Posted on 28-12-2011 14:54
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Member Location: Posts: 343 Joined: 10.06.04 |
I agree with Paul that it looks like an intersex |
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| Gerrit Oehm |
Posted on 29-12-2011 22:48
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Member Location: Germany Posts: 179 Joined: 26.11.11 |
Intersex only says that it is a mix (?) between male and female, does´t it? I saw some in the Forum before- are they common among fly? This seems to be the same species.. maybe it heps for determination. Gerrit Gerrit Oehm attached the following image:  [74.17Kb] |
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| blowave |
Posted on 30-12-2011 13:37
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 Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
The last photo is very strange, it looks like it has a hole in the top of it's head.  Janet http://cubits.org... |
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| Robert Zoralski |
Posted on 03-02-2012 21:49
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Member Location: Gdansk, Poland Posts: 173 Joined: 20.08.06 |
It is a mouthpart. Don't you see the head is upside-down?  |
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| blowave |
Posted on 03-02-2012 22:56
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Robert Zoralski wrote: It is a mouthpart. Don't you see the head is upside-down? Now that you mention it, yes!  It didn't really look like it could have been upside down!
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| Ginks |
Posted on 06-02-2012 13:58
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 Member Location: Mid-Essex Posts: 69 Joined: 05.01.12 |
I've never seen a hover twist its head round like that... I wouldn't have known the hole was a mouthpart. That's a very interesting photo, thanks for sharing it with us!
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