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 little dragonfly-mimic??
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| jeremyr |
Posted on 12-09-2012 16:37
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 Member Location: Tottenham Posts: 577 Joined: 18.05.12 |
a fly 12mm exactly including eyes, 10mm abdomen. Sitting with large marmalade flies, I thought it was an extra large one, but the abdomen is long and thin, and when I caught it in a tube it looked like a tiny dragonfly, a long narrow body swollen at the end, with an odd squared-'Y'-shape appendage sticking out the end like a short, wide tuning fork. Blueish oblique shapes on the latter sternites, some slight dark orange markings along the tergites What family might it be? regards, Jeremy jeremyr attached the following image:  [31.15Kb] |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 12-09-2012 17:38
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5248 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Stratiomyidae, but with my record on ID's lately..that is all I am saying  |
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| andrewsi |
Posted on 12-09-2012 17:44
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Member Location: Pocklington UK Posts: 216 Joined: 15.08.09 |
The small discal cell points to a Soldierfly. The lack of scutellar spines and abdomen shape then points to a Sargus. Ian |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 12-09-2012 18:15
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Sargus bipunctatus
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| jeremyr |
Posted on 12-09-2012 18:17
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Member Location: Tottenham Posts: 577 Joined: 18.05.12 |
I noticed the small cell (on the other pics) and that the thorax reminded me a bit of a recent M. polita, looking quickly at the list I see there's a sargus called Yellow-legged.. I've got the specimen and will look through them thanks! |
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