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 Microsoma exiguum - Tachinidae
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| hedy2411 |
Posted on 25-05-2013 10:12
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 Member Location: Zeist, Holland Posts: 5232 Joined: 20.11.09 |
Who knows the name of this fly...? Found 19-5-2013 in Zeist, Holland hedy2411 attached the following image:  [61.1Kb] Edited by hedy2411 on 27-05-2013 18:25 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 25-05-2013 15:27
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 Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like Tachinidae but I don't regognise it 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| hedy2411 |
Posted on 25-05-2013 21:27
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Member Location: Zeist, Holland Posts: 5232 Joined: 20.11.09 |
Thank you for your reaction Chris! It's a very small fly as it is sitting on a grass leaf. Regards, Hedy |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 27-05-2013 08:47
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18542 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Female Microsoma exiguum (?) Theo |
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| hedy2411 |
Posted on 27-05-2013 18:24
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Member Location: Zeist, Holland Posts: 5232 Joined: 20.11.09 |
Hello Theo, Compliments that you found it! It sure looks like a Microsoma exiguum, a suitable name to this small fly. I still have another picture of it. Regards, Hedy hedy2411 attached the following image:  [71.28Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 27-05-2013 19:15
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Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I'd be happy to see more photos of it - it's quite a rare thing in photos. I have only ever seen them with pins associated with them in some way 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 27-05-2013 19:17
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18542 Joined: 21.07.04 |
The wing venation is characteristic. I think it lives more in trees, where the hosts (Curculionidae) are more abundant. So possibly not that rare, but simply difficult to find. Theo |
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| Jaakko |
Posted on 28-05-2013 11:00
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 Member Location: Joensuu, Finland Posts: 479 Joined: 04.08.08 |
In Central and Southern Europe, I´ve always netted them from ground vegetation. Can be sometimes fairly abundant. In Finland I´ve gotten it only once in malaise trap. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 28-05-2013 16:55
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18542 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Well, that corresponds better with Hedy's observation ! Theo |
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| hedy2411 |
Posted on 28-05-2013 20:21
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Member Location: Zeist, Holland Posts: 5232 Joined: 20.11.09 |
Chris, Theo and Jaakko, thank you for your reactions to my topic!! This fly was the only one sitting in the grass. Chris I added another picture for you, but it is more or less the same. Regards, Hedy hedy2411 attached the following image:  [59.54Kb] |
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