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 Tachinidae ID => Pelatachina tibialis
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| tristram |
Posted on 12-10-2012 19:08
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Photos taken near Reading, UK, on 2012-06-19. Can anyone suggest the species? tristram attached the following image:  [124.24Kb] Edited by tristram on 13-10-2012 22:44 |
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| tristram |
Posted on 12-10-2012 19:09
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Another angle:
tristram attached the following image:  [153.95Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 12-10-2012 19:51
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like Pelatachina tibialis to me 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| tristram |
Posted on 13-10-2012 17:48
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Member Location: Reading, UK Posts: 1333 Joined: 27.06.10 |
Thank you, Chris. It is the first one I have come across. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 13-10-2012 18:33
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
They're not uncommon - fairly distinctive things - pale tibiae, long median bristles, yellow wing-bases, small rounded head. They are parasitoids of Small Tortoishell butterfly (among others) but they got a lot less hype than Sturmia bella 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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