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| Gordon Jar |
Posted on 11-01-2006 16:49
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Member Location: East Sussex, England Posts: 209 Joined: 09.10.05 |
Can anyone assist me with this fly. Photographed in my garden in south east England during October 05. I haven't seen one before or since. Many thanks Gordon  |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 11-01-2006 20:00
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
I think it is one of the Heleomyzidae.
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 12-01-2006 09:47
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2433 Joined: 05.01.06 |
a female of Suillia Andrzej W |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-01-2006 11:31
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
I see the humeral (postpronotal) seta is missing. The wing does not appear to maculate. Can you narrow down to species or species group on the basis of the leg colour (pale, last two tarsal segments blackish)?
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 12-01-2006 14:48
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2433 Joined: 05.01.06 |
Maybe it is S. bicolor, but I am not sure, the first flagellomere is less than ?pubescent, costal spines very short, nothing about scutellum (should be covered by pale hairs ... The plaural and maesonotal colouration in this species is more than variable. Andrzej W.  |
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| Gordon Jar |
Posted on 12-01-2006 18:42
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Member Location: East Sussex, England Posts: 209 Joined: 09.10.05 |
Many thanks. It is a new family for me. I think I understand most of the comments except ' maesonotal colouration'. I can't find reference to this. So excuse my ignorance but could you explain what this is ? Thankyou Gordon |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-01-2006 21:48
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Spelling should be 'pleural and mesonotal', meaning the lateral and dorsal parts of the thorax before the scutellum.
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 13-01-2006 13:09
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2433 Joined: 05.01.06 |
Rigth !, Paul corrected it profesionally ! mesonotum and pleura is correct !. As regard first flagellomere I mean the arista !!! Sorry, it's my fault !.  Sometimes I make mistakes. I am only a human being ! Errare humanum est ! (a latin sentence)  Andrzej W. |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 13-01-2006 13:27
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
Andrzej wrote: Sometimes I make mistakes. I am only a human being ! LoL, did you just find out or is it a shout of disappointment?
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 13-01-2006 13:49
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2433 Joined: 05.01.06 |
Ha ! re: Nil humanum a me alienum esse puto !. Andrzej |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 13-01-2006 14:12
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Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
And to me.
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 13-01-2006 14:32
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2433 Joined: 05.01.06 |
I'm so sorry !. There is a second part of a sentence: I am a human being; nothing human is strange to me ! Andrzej |
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| Gordon Jar |
Posted on 13-01-2006 16:19
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Member Location: East Sussex, England Posts: 209 Joined: 09.10.05 |
Thankyou very much. 'The man (or woman) that never makes a mistake, never makes anything' Gordon |
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| Andrzej |
Posted on 13-01-2006 16:54
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Member Location: Poland Posts: 2433 Joined: 05.01.06 |
Dear Gordon, Thanks for your warm words ! Andrew |
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