Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Help with ID please!
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| jezlee |
Posted on 21-06-2007 21:04
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 Member Location: West Midlands, UK Posts: 195 Joined: 12.06.06 |
Can anyone help me with this one, seen yesterday near running water on umbellifer plant (hogweed). Size from memory - perhaps between 5-10mm? many thanks for any help! 
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 21-06-2007 21:17
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Therevidae. Thereva sp.? Take photos of frontal face! |
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| Paul Beuk |
Posted on 21-06-2007 21:56
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 Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19403 Joined: 11.05.04 |
It's a male, so the frontal shot will give relatively little additional information.
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| jezlee |
Posted on 21-06-2007 22:54
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Member Location: West Midlands, UK Posts: 195 Joined: 12.06.06 |
Someone has suggested Thereva nobilitata .... is this a possibility?
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| Xespok |
Posted on 22-06-2007 09:13
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
T. nobilitata is usually more distinctly yellow and black, this fly seems more greyish. But I do not know how variable T. nobilitata is in this respect. But I think this is a Thereva species.
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 22-06-2007 09:58
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7306 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Looks like nobilitata to me, but I have to say that I often find Thereva males very difficult to name, even with specimens 
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