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Small shiny Tachinidae - Leucostoma?
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conopid |
Posted on 01-08-2009 21:40
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Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
Sorry about photo , on wild carrot. SW FRance July 2009
conopid attached the following image: [66.88Kb] Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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ChrisR |
Posted on 01-08-2009 21:45
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I think it's a Cistogaster globosa (female) - males are coloured orange & black but females are totally black
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
conopid |
Posted on 01-08-2009 22:06
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Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
Thanks Chris. Unfortunately my net broke and I could not capture a specimen.
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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ChrisR |
Posted on 01-08-2009 22:52
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Arghhhhh!!!! (again) I think if it was me I'd be making a net out of anything in the nearest hardware shop Can't go to a warm, sunny place and not have a net Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
Zeegers |
Posted on 02-08-2009 14:19
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18723 Joined: 21.07.04 |
I agree with Chris, it is something like Cistogaster or Elomyia female. Leucostoma has extremely large calyptra. Theo |
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