Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tipula vernalis, Sussex
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 14-05-2012 21:00
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 Member Location: UK Posts: 508 Joined: 16.11.11 |
No matter how hard I try, I simply am not key-compatible. This one keeps coming out as Tipula (Lunatipula), of which both have most in common with T. vernalis, although neither look like images elsewhere of female T. vernalis, or much like one another. Basically I'm stuck. As usual. The second individual was in a grassy verge of a path between oilseed rapefield and saltmarsh, the first was in a blackthorn hedge between oilseed rape and saltmarsh. About a hundred feet between the two, mostly because all the flies in between were too wary for me. wingspan perhaps 20-25mm? not overlarge for a cranefly. Smaller than probable T. oleracea already up. Will van Niekerk attached the following image:  [143.06Kb] Edited by Will van Niekerk on 18-05-2012 17:26 |
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 14-05-2012 21:01
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Member Location: UK Posts: 508 Joined: 16.11.11 |
and the tail end:
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 14-05-2012 21:02
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Member Location: UK Posts: 508 Joined: 16.11.11 |
And the more male-looking one:
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 14-05-2012 21:03
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Member Location: UK Posts: 508 Joined: 16.11.11 |
with his - also out of focus, sorry - rear end.
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| clovis |
Posted on 16-05-2012 19:53
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Member Location: North France, lille Posts: 940 Joined: 08.06.10 |
No problem for vernalis  |
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| Will van Niekerk |
Posted on 18-05-2012 17:25
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Member Location: UK Posts: 508 Joined: 16.11.11 |
Thanks! Updating title and celebrating (quietly) at managing to use a key!
Edited by Will van Niekerk on 18-05-2012 17:27 |
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