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Posted on 05-10-2009 10:42
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This Tachinid has the apical scutellar bristles missing, so it's proving difficukt to key with Belshaw. It looks familiar, but I can't decide what it is. It's a medium sized Tachinid, with extensively orange-brown scutellum. It also has very distinctively bent post vertcials (the outer ones). What might this fly be? conopid attached the following image:  [115.2Kb] Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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Posted on 05-10-2009 10:43
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Outer post vertical
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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Posted on 05-10-2009 10:44
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here it is (had spaces in the file name)!
conopid attached the following image:  [120.34Kb] Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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Posted on 05-10-2009 10:45
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front view
conopid attached the following image:  [164.81Kb] Edited by conopid on 05-10-2009 10:46 Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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Posted on 05-10-2009 11:18
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Carcelia sp. ?  The gena looks very narrow and on a scutellum like that the apicals should be crossed. Edited by ChrisR on 05-10-2009 12:52 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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Posted on 05-10-2009 13:54
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Thanks Chris, I'll check it out tonight.
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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Posted on 05-10-2009 21:36
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Yes it's Carcelia ( I should really have known by the size of the eyes). Carcelia lucorum. A very late female taken on 4 October in my Shropshire UK garden.
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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Posted on 05-10-2009 22:18
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Nice Will you send it in with your other records for 2009?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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Posted on 06-10-2009 09:57
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Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
certainly will
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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but don't see the image in the post.