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UK Tachinid => Macquartia grisea
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Martin Cooper |
Posted on 29-03-2014 12:12
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
At least I think it is a Tachinid, maybe a Macquartia. Photographed a few days ago in Suffolk. Best wishes, Martin Martin Cooper attached the following image: [189.19Kb] Edited by Martin Cooper on 29-03-2014 12:54 |
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Martin Cooper |
Posted on 29-03-2014 12:13
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
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Martin Cooper attached the following image: [186.53Kb] |
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ChrisR |
Posted on 29-03-2014 12:40
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Macquartia grisea is on the wing at the moment - Jeremy Richardson showed me an almost identical specimen last week
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
Martin Cooper |
Posted on 29-03-2014 12:53
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
Thanks Chris, I am especially delighted to have blundered through Belshaw's key and arrived at the same species! |
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Martin Cooper |
Posted on 29-03-2014 12:59
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Member Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 628 Joined: 01.05.12 |
Looking at the NBN Gateway, there are no records for this species in East Suffolk, though this is often due to under-reporting rather than actually scarcity. Details of this observation: Macquartia grisea Woodbridge, East Suffolk TM 27064841 27-Mar-2014 On Hogweed in a hedgerow Edited by Martin Cooper on 29-03-2014 13:17 |
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