Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Chloropidae - Meromyza m&f
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 20-11-2022 19:44
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Possible to speculate which Meromyza this might be? Found among sand dunes at St Cyrus National Nature Reserve in southern Aberdeenshire in July 2020.
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 20-11-2022 19:45
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 20-11-2022 19:46
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And the final duo...
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| kuv |
Posted on 21-11-2022 09:50
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Member Location: Schenefeld near Hamburg Posts: 3793 Joined: 30.04.10 |
Congratulations for those phantastic pictures! Greetings Kuv Edited by kuv on 21-11-2022 09:51 |
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| von Tschirnhaus |
Posted on 21-11-2022 13:10
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Member Location: Bielefeld, Germany Posts: 454 Joined: 04.11.07 |
Chloropidae, Chloropinae: Meromyza pratorum Meigen, 1830: This is the largest European Meromyza species (partly longer than 8mm) and one of the few easily to be identified with its long abdomen ending far beyond the hind femora and its frons produced in front as long as half the diameter of the eye. A fine and well agreeing short description is available in Nartshuk & Andersson 2013 (Fauna ent. scand. 23: 213). It is the most abundant Meromyza in our European dunes where it develops in Ammophila arenaria, one of its preferred hosts in Poaceae. Green Meromyza spp. turn yellow after their death. The metallic sheen of their eyes disappears, as the water evaporated between certain submicroscopic cell layers within their eyes, being responsible for the interference colours with about 500nm wave lengths. Along the coastal dunes around Iceland [3 months collecting] and at the Pacific coast of Kamchatka on Ammophila and Leymus arenarius stands I searched this species in vain.
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 22-11-2022 16:25
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Thanks once again for the ID Michael, very much appreciated. Now, IF you could give an opinion on this Cetema sp;  https://diptera.i..._id=101862 And thanks for the [very well deserved] compliment on the photos Kuv  , obviously a person of taste  . More Fantastic photos here  ...https://www.flick...nken_u_47/ Regards Roger. |
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| kuv |
Posted on 22-11-2022 16:34
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Member Location: Schenefeld near Hamburg Posts: 3793 Joined: 30.04.10 |
... and don't forget the Link to https://diptera.i..._id=108362! Greetings Kuv Edited by kuv on 22-11-2022 16:57 |
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