Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly for ID
Posted by PeterD on 31-08-2010 14:51
#1
Can anyone help ID this fly. It seems to have a very long tongue (like a bee).
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Photographed today at Plant Farm, Waterlooville, Hampshire, UK.
Thanks
Posted by nielsyese on 31-08-2010 15:05
#2
Probably Rhingia campestris.
Posted by PeterD on 01-09-2010 11:22
#3
Nielsyese wrote:
Probably Rhingia campestris.
Thank you:)
Posted by Mark-uk on 01-09-2010 16:50
#4
It is
Rhingia campestris the only other UK
Rhingia is
Rhingia rostrata - that does not have the darkness on the sides of the abdomen, and the scutellum tends to be more orange in living specimens. It is also generally slightly smaller and with a marginally shorter 'beak', thought these latter two features are not so clear in the felid, one needs specimens side by side to really notice.
Posted by PeterD on 01-09-2010 17:12
#5
Mark-uk wrote:
It is Rhingia campestris the only other UK Rhingia is Rhingia rostrata - that does not have the darkness on the sides of the abdomen, and the scutellum tends to be more orange in living specimens. It is also generally slightly smaller and with a marginally shorter 'beak', thought these latter two features are not so clear in the felid, one needs specimens side by side to really notice.
Thank you Mark for your explanation. This is the first time I have ever come across Rhingia.
Posted by Mark-uk on 01-09-2010 17:32
#6
I have seen very few of them in Hampshire this year.