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copulating empids
raywilson
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Posted on 26-10-2009 14:08
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 These were photographed at the edge of a pond in Cheshire, UK at the end of June. Any ideas on which species? E. tessellata perhaps?
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 Does not look like Empis (radial fork is missing). Might well be Rhamphomyia crassirostris but I cannot rule out another species. Any other shots?
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