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 Linnaemyia - Theo, please!!
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| Sundew |
Posted on 06-06-2008 21:46
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 Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Hi, This Tachinid is frequently met in our arboretum, and I suppose I should know it from last year - is it Linnaemyia tessellans again? Many thanks for patient help, Sundew Sundew attached the following image:  [159.76Kb] Edited by Sundew on 09-06-2008 08:57 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 06-06-2008 23:57
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Linnaemyia looks right (densely hairy eyes, projecting mouth edge & yellow basicosta) but we'll have to wait for Theo for the rest  |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 07-06-2008 13:13
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19286 Joined: 21.07.04 |
It's Linnaemyia and I don't do Mediterrean Linnaemyia from picture (unless something obvious as vulpina). Theo |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 07-06-2008 14:42
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Dear Theo, though we have mediterranean temperatures at the moment, Berlin is surely no mediterranean locality  , and in the last year you identified all my Linnaemyia pictures as L. tessellans, so would you please look again?Many thanks indeed, Sundew |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 09-06-2008 09:02
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
These pics are much better than those from the last year, taken with the small camera, and I have much more of them - which detail is important for species determination? I could check for such a pic. (Meanwhile it is hotter than in the Mediterranean, and we had no rain for a month - it's terribly dry, and the plants look like brown hay.) Cordially, Sundew |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 09-06-2008 17:36
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19286 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Right. If it is from Brandenburg or nearby, it should be L. tessellata. Good point To be sure, I would need to see the whitish hairs on sternite 2, rather difficult to get on a picture. Theo |
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