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 Common tachinid ? or Sarcophagid more likely
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 15-08-2010 19:50
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Member Location: Cumbria, UK Posts: 276 Joined: 07.06.10 |
Loads of these about at the moment in my garden, mainly on white daisy type flowers. 9mm long. I think it's a tachinid rather than a calliphorid although I'm not too sure how to tell the difference without looking at the ventral sternites . I'd be grateful for an ID. Peter I'm having second thoughts. With those big feet I think it's probably one of the sarcophaginae. peterbolson attached the following image:  [138.82Kb] Edited by peterbolson on 15-08-2010 19:56 |
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| peterbolson |
Posted on 15-08-2010 19:51
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Member Location: Cumbria, UK Posts: 276 Joined: 07.06.10 |
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peterbolson attached the following image:  [149.5Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 15-08-2010 20:54
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Sarcophagid (red eyes, stripy thorax and checker-board abdomen)  The big pulvilli mean it is probably a male so you could ID it if you pulled out the genitalia
Edited by ChrisR on 15-08-2010 21:01 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 16-08-2010 08:30
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Member Location: Cumbria, UK Posts: 276 Joined: 07.06.10 |
Thanks Chris Peter |
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but don't see the image in the post.