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 Tachinidae ID => Linnaemya picta
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| tristram |
Posted on 25-09-2012 21:12
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Photos taken in Reading, UK this afternoon, 2012-09-25. Any idea of the species? tristram attached the following image:  [132.22Kb] Edited by tristram on 30-09-2012 18:49 |
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| tristram |
Posted on 25-09-2012 21:13
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Another angle:
tristram attached the following image:  [161.38Kb] |
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| sd |
Posted on 25-09-2012 21:25
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 892 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Female Linnaemya tessellans or picta as per your record from last year- http://www.dipter...d_id=42093 Same comments apply I think  Steve |
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| sd |
Posted on 25-09-2012 21:35
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 892 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Personally, I think both are picta - but Chris will want to see a specimen as it will extend the known range of the species in the UK quite a bit. Steve |
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| tristram |
Posted on 25-09-2012 22:02
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
And to think I had it walking around on my thumb! I even had my net and plastic containers with me at the time. Never mind, I'll go up there again tomorrow and see if I can catch the little blighter. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-09-2012 22:26
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Would be very interesting if we could confirm this as picta - not just because we are interested in its range but also because they seem to have had a bad year this year ... as always, with tachinids, a specimens tells 1000 words 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| sd |
Posted on 27-09-2012 13:50
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 892 Joined: 11.10.07 |
I have seen a few females at ivy (Hedera) flowers this week Steve |
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| tristram |
Posted on 30-09-2012 18:55
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
I have changed the title to Linnaemya picta as Chris has confirmed that another specimen taken from the same area was picta snd not tesselans. See here: http://www.dipter...ost_217403 |
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