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 Tachinidae ?
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 16-07-2010 17:59
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That's about as far as I can get. From my garden, 8mm long. Is it possible to ID ? Thanks Peter peterbolson attached the following image:  [83.11Kb] |
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 16-07-2010 17:59
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 16-07-2010 18:00
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 16-07-2010 18:01
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-07-2010 18:06
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Looks like it's a Triarthria setipennis, but 8mm sounds quite big to me. Maybe you feed them particularly big earwigs up there 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 16-07-2010 18:30
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Member Location: Cumbria, UK Posts: 276 Joined: 07.06.10 |
That's quick ! I've checked the size and I think I might have misled you. 8mm from head to wing tip, 6mm body length. Many thanks Chris. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-07-2010 18:50
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
That sounds more like it  Triarthria is it then ... an earwig parasitoid ... fairly common in the right habitat They are very distinctive because they have that elongated second artista segment, hairy r1 and r4+5 veins and bristles all down the parafacial
Edited by ChrisR on 16-07-2010 18:52 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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