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6+mm, Clitheroe UK, 2 June 2011

My first guess is Rhinophoridae, but I wonder about the round curve in the M vein. Otherwise Phyto doesn't look far off, though I don't know about the orange frons. Just newness? I have the specimen.

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We have to play without the picture Stephen ? :)

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Oops, sorry! Didn't notice the file was too big - too much background detail. Let's try this:

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Here's the body:

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The calyptra is too big for Rhinophoridae.

There is some Sarcophagidae with a petiole. Need to look this up (or Liekele beats me to it !)

Excellent pictures, by the way

Theo

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Thanks!

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Maybe calyptra look big because of the angle from which the picture is taken. I would not exclude Rhinophoridae from these pictures.

I have to exclude Sarcophagidae. Second picture shows tergite VI which is not present in Sarcophaginae, only in Miltogramminae. But in Miltogramminae there aren't any look alikes.

However this specimen reminded me immediatly of Phyto discrepans. Therefore I have compared the pictures with my specimens and I do not see any reason why this could not be Phyto discrepans. Several "subspecies" have been described, showing some variability within the species.

This specimen seems to lack stripes on thorax, but that could be an artifact in pictures. The tomentosum on the abdomen is more extensive as usual but I have similar specimens from Portugal.


Liekele

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Many thanks, Lieleke! There are rather faint dusting stripes on the thorax - the third photo (labelled 2 ;)) represents them fairly accurately, at least on the mesonotum.

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useful post