Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachinidae ID => Sturmia bella
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| tristram |
Posted on 21-09-2012 21:28
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1335 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Photos taken in Reading, UK, on 2012-09-21. I think this is Sturmia bella. Am I correct? tristram attached the following image:  [162.07Kb] Edited by tristram on 21-09-2012 22:58 |
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| tristram |
Posted on 21-09-2012 21:29
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1335 Joined: 27.06.10 |
A slightly different angle:
tristram attached the following image:  [154.27Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 21-09-2012 21:49
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes - well done  Quite a distinctive tachinid.
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 21-09-2012 22:10
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1335 Joined: 27.06.10 |
It helps that the first photo is almost identical to one by Tim Worfolk in the gallery: http://www.dipter...to_id=4510 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-09-2012 00:07
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, they are quite consistent  Bare eyes; very pale face with no protruding mouth edge; no median discals and only a few median marginals on T1-3 - then lots of marginals on T4-5.
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 22-09-2012 11:51
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 Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
ChrisR wrote: Yes, they are quite consistent. Bare eyes; very pale face with no protruding mouth edge; no median discals and only a few median marginals on T1-3 - then lots of marginals on T4-5. I thought Sturmia bella had a brown tip to the scutellum, all those I have do. Can this be absent? A photo in the gallery showing this .. http://www.dipter...to_id=7397 Janet http://cubits.org... |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-09-2012 12:52
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
The scutellum colour is a little variable but I suspect that if we had this as a specimen it would be clearer.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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