Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachinidae ID => Linnaemya picta
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| tristram |
Posted on 28-09-2012 16:01
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1335 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Caught today, 2012-09-28, in Reading UK.
tristram attached the following image:  [117.5Kb] Edited by tristram on 30-09-2012 18:12 |
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| tristram |
Posted on 28-09-2012 16:05
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1335 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Dorsal view:
tristram attached the following image:  [154.39Kb] |
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| sd |
Posted on 28-09-2012 16:26
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 893 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Should be a male Linnaemya picta. Well done Steve |
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| tristram |
Posted on 28-09-2012 16:42
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1335 Joined: 27.06.10 |
It looks darker than my previous photos but it had just come out of the freezer and so was probably a bit damp when I photgraphed it. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 29-09-2012 09:26
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Very nice indeed - if we can meet up then I can key it properly and confirm that for you ... I am in Tilehurst so it should be easy to sort out
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 30-09-2012 13:47
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Just a follow-up to say that I met-up with tristram yesterday and the specimen is a very nice male Linnaemya picta - the male genitalia are very distinctive  That extends the range of this species a lot further west of all previous records
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 30-09-2012 18:32
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1335 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Thank you, Chris. I feel relieved to have it confirmed. It's been over a year since my first photo and it would have been a quite a let-down if it had turned out to be L. tesselans after all. Today I was over at Chazey Wood, which is roughly half-way between here and your haunt at Hartslock Nature Reserve. I saw nothing that looked anything like a Linnaemya, neither picta nor tessselans, even though I spent 3 or 4 hours searching. Edited by tristram on 30-09-2012 18:33 |
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