Thread subject: Diptera.info :: UK Tachinid => Macquartia grisea
Posted by Martin Cooper on 29-03-2014 13:12
#1
At least I think it is a Tachinid, maybe a Macquartia. Photographed a few days ago in Suffolk.
Best wishes,
Martin
Edited by Martin Cooper on 29-03-2014 13:54
Posted by Martin Cooper on 29-03-2014 13:13
#2
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Posted by ChrisR on 29-03-2014 13:40
#3
Macquartia grisea is on the wing at the moment - Jeremy Richardson showed me an almost identical specimen last week :)
Posted by Martin Cooper on 29-03-2014 13:53
#4
Thanks Chris, I am especially delighted to have blundered through Belshaw's key and arrived at the same species!
Posted by Martin Cooper on 29-03-2014 13:59
#5
Looking at the NBN Gateway, there are no records for this species in East Suffolk, though this is often due to under-reporting rather than actually scarcity.
Details of this observation:
Macquartia grisea
Woodbridge, East Suffolk
TM 27064841
27-Mar-2014
On Hogweed in a hedgerow
Edited by Martin Cooper on 29-03-2014 14:17