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 Tephritidae ID ==> Tephritis praecox
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| tristram |
Posted on 23-11-2011 00:56
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
From July 2009 what I think is a Tephritis sp. Photos taken in Reading UK, on 2009-07-21 and 2009-07-26. No obvious host plants - it was on the window of a 2nd floor flat that is surrounded by horse chestnut trees and lawns. Initially I thought it might be T. matricariae (which seems to have colonized SE England in the past decade) but now I think the wing patterns don't look quite right for that. So then I thought maybe T. praecox but that seems to be quite rare in England. Now I am just confused. tristram attached the following image:  [103.36Kb] Edited by tristram on 23-11-2011 18:44 |
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| tristram |
Posted on 23-11-2011 00:58
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Another view.
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| tristram |
Posted on 23-11-2011 00:59
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
And another.
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| tristram |
Posted on 23-11-2011 01:00
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
And a last one.
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| saeed |
Posted on 23-11-2011 12:13
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Member Location: Iran Posts: 125 Joined: 10.03.08 |
It is Tephritis pareacox 
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 23-11-2011 15:01
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Indeed. Not too much unexpected: this species has been listed for the UK (White 1988).
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| tristram |
Posted on 23-11-2011 18:20
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Thankyou Saeed and Valery! (What I meant by T. praecox being 'rare' was it appears in only 6 10-km squares on Laurence Clemon's 2008 Updated Distribution Maps of the Tephritidae (Diptera) of Britain and Ireland, whereas T. matricariae appears in 44.) Edited by tristram on 23-11-2011 18:39 |
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