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Tachinid Blithia spreta?
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 Just keyed this through Belshaw and arrived at Blithia spreta. Am I likely to be correct?
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 There seem to be two spellings for this speciesShock
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 Could be

The picture is not sharp, though.
Difficult to be sure.


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 Bithia spreta is quite a grey-looking fly ... but Theo is right - we need to see a better shot of the wing, face and dorsal profiles to have a chance of an ID Smile
 
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