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 Tachinid Ramonda spathulata?
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| blowave |
Posted on 25-12-2009 18:24
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 Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Hello! A guess here with only one pic but I have another from a different date which looks much the same (to me)  . Take on 24th May 2009 in my garden near Lincoln UK.Janet 
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-12-2009 19:25
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Sarcophagidae?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| blowave |
Posted on 25-12-2009 20:24
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Aah, one of those confusing ones |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-12-2009 20:35
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Well, to me it just looks like a sarco because it has reddish eyes and an elongated body and a deeply concave 'post-angular vein' There are a few smaller sarcophagini that look like that and confuse people because they expect all sarcos to look like typical Sarcophaga or Miltogrammini
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 25-12-2009 21:51
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18563 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Yes, definitely a Sarc Theo |
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| blowave |
Posted on 25-12-2009 22:22
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Member Location: LINCOLN, UK Posts: 3151 Joined: 27.06.07 |
Thanks Theo, and I know they are usually impossible. |
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