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Coremacera marginata
Smoggycb	#1 Posted on 20-09-2007 16:45
Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	Taken on the 18th in my garden. On coastal shingle, but there are plenty of freshwater habitats close by. Smoggycb attached the following image: [73.11Kb] Edited by Smoggycb on 21-09-2007 12:45


Jan Willem	#2 Posted on 20-09-2007 17:33
Member Location: Waalwijk, The Netherlands Posts: 2160 Joined: 24.07.04	No, not Tetanocera. I think this is Coremacera marginata. Jan Willem


Smoggycb	#3 Posted on 20-09-2007 19:26
Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	Thanks Jan. Could you (or anybody else for that matter) suggest a reasonably up to date key for this family?


kitenet	#4 Posted on 20-09-2007 20:57
Member Location: Buckinghamshire, UK Posts: 118 Joined: 04.05.06	I use: Rozkosny, R. 1984. The Sciomyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica Vol. 14. E.J. Brill/Scandinavian Science Press Ltd. Covers nearly all the British species , and is on Amazon for not too huge a price. Martin Martin Harvey


Rui Andrade	#5 Posted on 20-09-2007 21:51
Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07	Why not Euthycera? http://www.dipter...post_38179 Edited by Rui Andrade on 20-09-2007 21:56


Nikita Vikhrev	#6 Posted on 20-09-2007 22:03
Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9475 Joined: 24.05.05	Coremacera has hairy apex of antennae. Really, Coremacera and Euthycera are very related genuses in all other characters... Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University


Rui Andrade	#7 Posted on 20-09-2007 22:14
Member Location: Portugal Posts: 3123 Joined: 19.06.07	Now I get it! Thank you, Nikita .


Smoggycb	#8 Posted on 21-09-2007 12:41
Member Location: Rye Harbour, England Posts: 350 Joined: 19.05.07	Thanks for that Martin - I'll have to do some e-shopping I think! I must admit I have looked at similar species in the past and wondered whether they were Coremacera or Euthycera and couldn't work out the difference between the genera. Thanks for that little discussion Nikita and Rui!