Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachinidae Smidtia conspersa?
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| blowave |
Posted on 25-04-2012 17:28
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 Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Hi, I have had Smidtia conspersa before but this one looked a little different so at first didn't recognise it. Is this correct? My garden/door near Lincoln UK, 23rd April. It was probably ~9mm. Janet blowave attached the following image:  [146.02Kb] http://cubits.org... |
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| blowave |
Posted on 25-04-2012 17:29
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
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| blowave |
Posted on 25-04-2012 17:30
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-04-2012 17:44
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
It looks pretty good to me (hairy parafacial, hairy eyes and orange scutellum, orange palps(?)) but I don't see many of them myself - Erikas might confirm though 
Edited by ChrisR on 25-04-2012 17:45 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| blowave |
Posted on 25-04-2012 17:58
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
The palps do look to be orange from what I can see. I saw it a few times in 2010, once last year and 2009. Funny thing is they are all from 12th, 13th & 14th April! The cold weather must have delayed them this year.
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| neprisikiski |
Posted on 26-04-2012 15:24
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Member Location: Lithuania Posts: 876 Joined: 23.02.09 |
Looks like Smidtia for me too.
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| blowave |
Posted on 27-04-2012 21:01
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
neprisikiski wrote: Looks like Smidtia for me too. Thanks Erikas. There's one thing bothering me, that is the multiple rows of bristles on the frontorbital plate, I got photos of another one yesterday which has fewer bristles. When I edit the photos I will post them for comparison! 
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| blowave |
Posted on 28-04-2012 20:00
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
I started a new thread for the other fly which is different but looks very similar! http://www.dipter...ost_204376 http://cubits.org... |
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