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UK Tachinid => Macquartia grisea
Martin Cooper
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At least I think it is a Tachinid, maybe a Macquartia. Photographed a few days ago in Suffolk.

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Macquartia grisea is on the wing at the moment - Jeremy Richardson showed me an almost identical specimen last week Smile
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Thanks Chris, I am especially delighted to have blundered through Belshaw's key and arrived at the same species!
 
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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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