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Roger Thomason	#1 Posted on 27-08-2008 05:06
Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5250 Joined: 17.07.08	4-5mm approx. on concrete post in garden. last week Roger Thomason attached the following image: [176.05Kb]


Roger Thomason	#2 Posted on 27-08-2008 05:07
Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5250 Joined: 17.07.08	photo2 Roger Thomason attached the following image: [181.68Kb]


Xespok	#3 Posted on 27-08-2008 08:14
Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5550 Joined: 02.03.05	A male Fannia. Gabor Keresztes Japan Wildlife Gallery Carpathian Basin Wildlife Gallery


Nikita Vikhrev	#4 Posted on 27-08-2008 13:52
Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9233 Joined: 24.05.05	t1 broadly yellow + f3 av strong + shetland isles + jizz my guess F.manicata Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University


Roger Thomason	#5 Posted on 27-08-2008 23:57
Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5250 Joined: 17.07.08	Lateral view for Nikita Roger Thomason attached the following image: [180.71Kb]


Nikita Vikhrev	#6 Posted on 28-08-2008 08:58
Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9233 Joined: 24.05.05	Ideed, it is Fannia of scalaris-group (which incl manicata). I'd say it looks like F.monilis with badly developed apical brush on t1. Roger, it seems you have a lot of nice images of this fly, may be you have one more with mid-tibia anterior/posterior? Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University


Nikita Vikhrev	#7 Posted on 28-08-2008 12:23
Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9233 Joined: 24.05.05	Dear Roger, additional images aren't nessasery anymore, I wanted to answer fast (it is my old problem), but now I can give a species-level ID: it isn't scalaris-group, it is male of Fannia scalaris (Fabr.) itself. Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University