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John Bratton
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Posted on 31-03-2015 16:52
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This was collected 27 March 2015 on a dead rodent in a small rocky wet heath within birch woodland, Llandegfan Common, SH577750, North Wales, UK. Can anyone confirm it as Heleomyza serrate, and not captiosa, please?
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Here is the critical bit.

Thanks,
John
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And the habitat
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And the best bit
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oxycera
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I have figures of the two (I can check the source if necessary), which
strongly suggest that yours is captiosa.
 
John Bratton
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Thanks. I was going by the figures in Gorodkov 1988.

I see the British checklist suggests they may not be distinct species.
 
oxycera
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I was looking at Gorodkov also.
Perhaps it is more 'banana' like than 'hockey stick' like (Dr Woznica's
words). That would make it serrata; hopefully he will comment on your post. See thread from 04.04.2010 if you haven't seen it.
 
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No doubt it's H. captiosa Wink. Andrzej
dr. A. J. Woznica, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental & Life Sciences
 
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Excellent.
 
John Bratton
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Thanks for that, Andrzej. But I have to say I am surprised. As well as the shape of the surstylus, the size of the epandrium looks a much better fit to Gorodkov's serrata. What leads you to captiosa?

I have a photo at home that I took from Diptera.info of a captiosa surstylus, from Berlin by Ralph Sipple, which is a close fit to Gorodkov's captiosa and different from my photo. For some reason, I can no longer find that post on Diptera.info, but I can repost the photo to this thread if that is allowed. But it will have to be after Easter.

John
 
empeejay
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The 2 threads below should clear things up.

Heleomyza captiosa

Heleomyza serrata

However, it does seem that the British specimens in the current thread and this one, are somewhat intermediate.
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Andrzej
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Hi! realy interesting. I'm not sure about the species level of the last one mentioned here: http://www.dipter...d_id=29024. It's not excluded that the species could be a species which is described in North America. Andrzej
dr. A. J. Woznica, Institute of Environmental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental & Life Sciences
 
John Bratton
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Back from Easter.

The link to H. captiosa that empeejay has posted above is the thread I mentioned on 2 April. I don't know why I couldn't find it.

There do seem to be three forms of surstylus here. More than two species, or one very variable one?

John
 
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