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| nick upton |
Posted on 07-06-2010 19:03
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 815 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Another Tachinid from Corsica which i can't begin to suggest a genus for. Can anyone help? 4th June 2010 c 10mm feeding on umbels by a mountain stream at c400m altitude. nick upton attached the following image:  [176.69Kb] Edited by nick upton on 22-11-2010 20:00 Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 07-06-2010 19:04
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 815 Joined: 12.03.10 |
A more profiled view
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| nick upton |
Posted on 07-06-2010 19:06
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 815 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Another individual of - I think!.... - the same species at the same place, same time.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-06-2010 20:23
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
The first 2 photos show a Linnaemya (densely hairy eyes, protruding mouth edge & yellow basicosta) but it won't be possible to go further because there are too many very close species with black legs.  The third photo is clearly a different species - it has bare eyes and no protruding mouth edge. This third photo is much more interesting - I don't recognize it but it reminds me of a goniine (very wide frons and bristly parafacials) ... it needs Theo to look Do you have any other angles?
Edited by ChrisR on 07-06-2010 20:26 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 07-06-2010 22:06
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 815 Joined: 12.03.10 |
OK, thanks Chris. Now I look closer I can see pic 3 is a different sp! At the time of shooting it was just another big, dark Tachinid which i naively assumed was the same... I may well have more shots of this one and will check my files and will add more angles if I find any.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-06-2010 22:58
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Great - those erect scutellars, bold thoracic vitae, wide frons and bristly parafacial are really interesting
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 08-06-2010 10:21
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 815 Joined: 12.03.10 |
This one, of course, didn't hang around for long and I have just 2 more pics, only one of them really sharply focused, but they do give a frontal view which may help.
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| nick upton |
Posted on 08-06-2010 10:22
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 815 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Final shot:
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 08-06-2010 11:11
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Oh yes - looks very goniine - something like Spallanzania but Theo would have a better guess - I'd need a specimen to confirm it See the gallery here: http://diptera.in...to_id=3280 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 08-06-2010 21:10
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 815 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Sorry, only digital evidence available... Hope it's enough for Theo if he gets a chance to look..
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| nick upton |
Posted on 22-11-2010 20:03
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 815 Joined: 12.03.10 |
As Theo is around and has been so helpful today with 2 other Corsican queries, I'm resurrecting this Linnaemya and Spallanzania? thread in case he can add anything to ChrisR's input to date..
Edited by nick upton on 22-11-2010 20:04 Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 22-11-2010 21:25
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18552 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Linnaemyia and Spallanzania are my thoughts as well... both very difficult genera, so that is were it ends without specimen on a needle. Theo |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 22-11-2010 21:40
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 815 Joined: 12.03.10 |
OK many thanks Theo for confirming Chris's astute genus IDs.
Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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but don't see the image in the post.