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 Goniocera versicolor ... ?
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 26-04-2011 14:50
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I am 99% sure of the identification but I just thought I'd sanity-check it with the experts here before I make a complete fool of myself  These were seen last weekend, attacking Lackey moth larvae on a coastal site called Cogden Beach, in Dorset. They seem to key very well ... hairy r4+5 plus long, converging sub-apical scutellars leading to Siphonini; then a weak ventral katepisternal bristle, lack of hinged proboscis and many anterodorsal bristles on the mid tibia leading to Goniocera     Apologies for the size of the images - though I think they should scale OK on most computers. Finally here is a brief and quite bad-quality video of them chasing the host larvae and being chased off  http://youtu.be/T... Edited by ChrisR on 26-04-2011 14:54 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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