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 small grey tachinid (?) wants a name
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| Sundew |
Posted on 16-05-2008 21:50
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 Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3917 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Hi, Today the flowers of Geranium pyrenaicum were quite crowded. Beside Oedemera beetles there were small flies that, according to wing venation, should be Muscidae. Can we get closer? Many thanks, Sundew Sundew attached the following image:  [123.09Kb] Edited by Sundew on 16-05-2008 22:30 |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 16-05-2008 21:50
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3917 Joined: 28.07.07 |
Two more pics.
Sundew attached the following image:  [118.96Kb] |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 16-05-2008 22:00
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9459 Joined: 24.05.05 |
small, grey ... Tachinid  Siphona, I think Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 16-05-2008 22:29
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Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3917 Joined: 28.07.07 |
I had Tachinidae in mind, too, but I expected a bristlier habit in this case... Okay, I'll change the title, but Siphona would be a dead end in any case, I'm afraid! (There are still lots of pics from all possible angles though, so if morphology could lead to a name, I might find the decisive bristle...)
Edited by Sundew on 16-05-2008 22:34 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 16-05-2008 23:06
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Siphona for sure (long, angled proboscis on a small grey.brown fly) ... and maybe geniculata, if it has marginals in T1+2 - but I'm not sure how that rule-of-thumb stacks up outside the UK.  Probably best to just put "Siphona sp."  |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 17-05-2008 15:16
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19009 Joined: 21.07.04 |
It is a Siphona with central marginals on syntergite 1&2, however, it's not geniculata, given the clear contrast between yellow vertex and white face. And the epaulette are reddish, so best suggestion would be S. cristata. Theo |
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