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 fly on fungus
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| jane bowman |
Posted on 15-01-2008 20:42
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I found this attractive fly on a fungus in the Scottish Highlands at the end of August. Could you identify please.
jane bowman attached the following image:  [63.16Kb] |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 15-01-2008 20:52
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It is Trypetoptera punctulata, Sciomyzidae
Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| jane bowman |
Posted on 16-01-2008 21:51
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Many thanks for this Nikita Best wishes Jane |
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| Nosferatumyia |
Posted on 16-01-2008 22:19
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Bravo, Nikita! Trypetoptera punctulata is the most famous "fruit fly". Bernhard Merz told me once a story which is the same as my own: in the beginning of his tephritid career he tried to determine it as a tephritid species. I have seen dozens and dosens of it in many museums of Europe with the label "Oxyna?" or "Trypetidae?", etc. 
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| Kahis |
Posted on 16-01-2008 22:54
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
Nosferatumyia wrote: Bravo, Nikita! Trypetoptera punctulata is the most famous "fruit fly". Bernhard Merz told me once a story which is the same as my own: in the beginning of his tephritid career he tried to determine it as a tephritid species. I have seen dozens and dosens of it in many museums of Europe with the label "Oxyna?" or "Trypetidae?" Exactly. I just got a small collection of flies to identify, and among the tephritids is a series of this species. From Kaliningrad - not too many diptera records from the region, Fauna Europaea lists just one sciomyzid and no tephritids... Kahis |
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