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 Interesting bombylid
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 17-07-2010 23:03
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
This photo was taken at Coombe Gibbet (Berkshire) today by Ricki Bull and was passed to me by Graham Saunders, of the Reading & District Natural History Society. Could it be a Villa cingulata?
ChrisR attached the following image:  [156.66Kb] Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| David Gibbs |
Posted on 18-07-2010 10:19
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 Member Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 833 Joined: 17.06.06 |
Hi Chris Does look slightly infuscated along fore-margin of wing but not so much to be outside range of cingulata. As a female cannot be named with certainty (and males best dissected from any new site) but habitat would suggest, on balance of probability, that it is cingulata. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 18-07-2010 10:23
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Excellent news - I'm assuming that's quite an exciting find? Or are they cropping up all over the place these days?  I'll get some more data from Graham and see if he or Ricki have any more photos too.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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but don't see the image in the post.