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Roger Thomason
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 Found loitering among grass next to The Burn of Valayre here in Shetland. ID'able from this pic?
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 Dear Roger
it looks very much like Tipula scripta (see http://nlbif.eti...._1957b.pdf figure 161, page 249). There is a more recent version of Theowalds' work, but I couldn't find downloadables.
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I have verified your larvae using Theowald (1967) and it is definitely Tipula (Vestiplex) sp. and although it looks very similar to T.scripta I cannot exlude T. excisa or T. montana from your photo's.
If the dorsal lobes are slightly curved towards the head than it is scripta, if not (just straight) than one of the other.
 
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 Thanks for looking at this and also for link atylotus...well none of those are on my checklist for here (which means nothing). Wish I had taken a few more pics at different angles..I'll know for next time. This one is wriggling its way through the grass somewhere....( not knowing what we call it Frown )

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