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Unknown species from the Netherlands
corotauria
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Posted on 22-05-2008 14:11
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Dear forummers,

I am a birder and actually not a Diptera-specialist. Unfortunately birds don't always cooperate by photographing and to avoid that I am getting bored, I useally aim my lense on other subjects. Most of the time other subjects will be amphibians, reptiles, dragonflies and butterflies. Although I have to be nuts to say this on the forum of Diptera.info, the last groups I will be photographing are plants and insects.

Last sunday, I had this kind of birding-dip and shot some insects. I thoughed I had the correct ID, but an other Dutch guy mentioned it isn't as simple as i though it could be.

Simply. Can you help identify this photo's for certain...?!

www.pbase.com/corotauria/image/97346802/medium.jpg
And an other one:
www.pbase.com/corotauria/image/97346801/medium.jpg
I though this is a Lucilia caesar. Correct?

www.pbase.com/corotauria/image/97346805/medium.jpg
I though this is a Tipula lateralis

www.waarneming.nl/fotonew/6/336936.jpg
I have no idea, some kind of Bee. Through another forum this was identified as a Andrena spec. Is it possible to identify it so species-level?

Most photo's are shown bigger at my site: http://www.pbase.com/corotauria.

Thank anyway! I am curious to the solutions!

Kind regards.
Edited by corotauria on 22-05-2008 14:12
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Posted on 23-05-2008 18:11
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No one? Shock
(Hopefully you can see that I am really desperate...?!)
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Posted on 23-05-2008 18:27
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I think the dark leading edge to the wing with pale stripe parallel to it means your cranefly is Tipula subgenus Tipula, whereas I think Tipula lateralis is subgenus Yamatipula. The two common species in subgenus Tipula are paludosa and oleracea, and I think one of these is mainly found in autumn. But I'm not in my house at present so can't look in the books to check the details.

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Susan R Walter
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Posted on 27-05-2008 19:05
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Your Lucilia is either caesar or ampullacea - I can't tell for sure which from these photos.

Please post different species in separate threads. It makes things much easier to follow.
Edited by Susan R Walter on 27-05-2008 19:19
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According to the British atlas, Tipula oleracea is on the wing from April to November. It is less precise about T. paludosa but implies it is mainly autumnal.

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