Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Tachinidae -> Phorocera spec.?
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| Maxim |
Posted on 19-04-2010 11:50
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Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 8 Joined: 27.08.09 |
Does anyone here have suggestions concerning the identity of this fly? (photographed this morning in a sunny wetland on sandy ground in the northern Netherlands, sunbathing on the bark of a birch tree)
Maxim attached the following image:  [130.1Kb] Edited by Maxim on 21-04-2010 05:43 Maxim |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 19-04-2010 12:44
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like Phorocera obscura but let's wait for Theo or Jaakko 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Maxim |
Posted on 21-04-2010 05:41
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Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 8 Joined: 27.08.09 |
Thanks a lot! I was wondering if there would be a possibility of distinguishing Phorocera obscura from P. assimilis in photos of this quality. I even find it difficult to exclude Smidtia conspersa. I attach another photo, which perhaps can help. Maxim attached the following image:  [29.65Kb] Maxim |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 21-04-2010 20:09
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19317 Joined: 21.07.04 |
I agree, there it little to go on, but given the elongated abdomen, hairy eyes, bristles on face, ... it should be Phorocera obscura (obscura since the scutellum is dark). Theo |
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| Maxim |
Posted on 22-04-2010 13:58
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Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 8 Joined: 27.08.09 |
Thank you very much! It is great to slowly learn what exactly to look for.
Maxim |
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