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fleabag	#1 Posted on 20-04-2007 22:03
Member Location: Sussex UK Posts: 183 Joined: 13.07.06	Hi, Please could anyone help to id this?possibly not a great id pic. Found in rural sussex uk,I'd guess about 5mm,seemed quite small and chunky looking. thanks, Noel. fleabag attached the following image: [73.36Kb]


jorgemotalmeida	#2 Posted on 20-04-2007 22:15
Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06	Family Sarcophagidae?


Nikita Vikhrev	#3 Posted on 20-04-2007 22:48
Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9491 Joined: 24.05.05	or may be some small Phasia? Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University


ChrisR	#4 Posted on 20-04-2007 23:06
Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04	Was it photographed recently? It does look like a Phasia (small antennae, petiolate mein-M with curve etc). Dusting might suggest P.obesa but it's an odd angle - any other shots?


fleabag	#5 Posted on 20-04-2007 23:58
Member Location: Sussex UK Posts: 183 Joined: 13.07.06	I found it just a few days ago...i only got a few shots before it flew off. this one shows a slightly different angle fleabag attached the following image: [66.82Kb]


ChrisR	#6 Posted on 21-04-2007 09:55
Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04	Yeah, I'd be reasonably happy to say it was Phasia obesa, but the angle makes it a bit tricky to get my bearings. If so it would be a nice sighting because I don't think I have ever seen it this early in the UK. In Belshaw the (British) flight period was quoted as starting in "early June" but in Tschorsnig & Herting the (European) flight period is listed as starting in "early May", which suggests the species is now fitting in an early brood here where there wasn't one before... perhaps.


fleabag	#7 Posted on 22-04-2007 14:55
Member Location: Sussex UK Posts: 183 Joined: 13.07.06	thanks for the helpful replies + id always good to see + photograph a new one for my collection. Seems everythings out early with this weather were having. Noel.