Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Don't know..Antho.? < Myopina myopina ID'd by Nikita V.

Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-05-2012 04:40
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Found a couple of days ago on a daisy in sandy grassland above a beach..sorry about the bit of grass obscuring it :|

Edited by Roger Thomason on 30-05-2012 00:43

Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-05-2012 04:41
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Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-05-2012 04:43
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Posted by Roger Thomason on 29-05-2012 04:43
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Posted by Stephen R on 29-05-2012 11:37
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I don't know either, but I think it has a Scathophagid look.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 29-05-2012 14:18
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Myopina myopina, I think

Posted by Roger Thomason on 30-05-2012 00:46
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Thanks Nikita, another unrecorded species for Shetland. :)
I thought it looked a bit Scathophagidae too Stephen, and going by other posts about these flies, others have been confused by it too...:)

Posted by Stephen R on 30-05-2012 11:24
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Always happy to re-affirm my ignorance ;)