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 Is this microtrichia?
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| jeremyr |
Posted on 25-09-2012 19:42
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 Member Location: Tottenham Posts: 577 Joined: 18.05.12 |
I need to establish if the second basal cell of this Melangyna is free of microtrichia or not, and it's not something I've looked at before. It seems to me that there are indeed small hairs uniform across the wing, which I must assume are microtrichia. Is this correct? Jeremy jeremyr attached the following image:  [100.65Kb] |
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| jeremyr |
Posted on 25-09-2012 19:43
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-09-2012 19:47
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Yes, the tiny hairs are microtrichia ... in some species you have to watch for bare areas on the wing 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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