Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachinidae ID => Pales pavida
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| tristram |
Posted on 08-06-2012 19:30
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
I think this Pales pavida. Is this correct? Photos taken in Reading, UK, on 2012-06-04. tristram attached the following image:  [110.85Kb] Edited by tristram on 09-06-2012 23:45 |
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| tristram |
Posted on 08-06-2012 19:31
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
From the front:
tristram attached the following image:  [152.2Kb] |
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| tristram |
Posted on 08-06-2012 19:32
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
And a better view of the back:
tristram attached the following image:  [168.54Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 08-06-2012 22:53
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I don't see any bristles on the facial ridges so it shouldn't be Pales ... but it might be something like Phryxe ... did you get a specimen?
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 08-06-2012 23:06
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
No specimen I'm afraid. Thanks anyway. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 09-06-2012 10:24
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19325 Joined: 21.07.04 |
must be a trick of the picture: it is a female Pales pavida (colouration of abdomen and scutellum, shape of calypter, only 1 reclinate orbital !!) Theo |
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| tristram |
Posted on 09-06-2012 22:06
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1334 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Thank you Theo! |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 10-06-2012 11:31
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Strange ... and they say the camera never lies! 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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