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| Toby |
Posted on 17-04-2007 09:25
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 Member Location: SW LONDON Posts: 552 Joined: 12.01.07 |
dont know if you can tell from this angle Richmond, last May  |
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| John Smit |
Posted on 17-04-2007 09:33
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 Member Location: Utrecht Posts: 565 Joined: 05.10.04 |
Merodon aeneus, male. Photgraphed in the UK???? JOhn |
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| Toby |
Posted on 17-04-2007 09:39
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Member Location: SW LONDON Posts: 552 Joined: 12.01.07 |
Yes, wouldn't it have to be equestris? I have no record of aeneus. |
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| Dieter |
Posted on 17-04-2007 11:40
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Member Location: Munich, Germany Posts: 114 Joined: 15.04.07 |
This is a quite normal specimen of equestris (Merodon flavus, however, is indistinguishable from the characters visible from this image but is unknown from the British Isles). M. aeneus differs in the shape of the 3rd antennal segment, the hairs on the thoracic pleura are of the same colour as those on the scutum, the tibiae are yellow basally, and the hind tibia has a different shape. Sorry, no new species for GB. Cheers, Dieter |
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| John Smit |
Posted on 17-04-2007 13:12
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Member Location: Utrecht Posts: 565 Joined: 05.10.04 |
Nope, sorry it looked too red for me to be Merodon equestris flavus. And I was not sure it was photographed in the UK, in South or East Europe M. aeneus is quite common. But I do agree with Dieter. JOhn |
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