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 Ethiopia. Gonia?
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 21-03-2012 17:42
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9449 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Ethiopia, Bale Mt., Goba, 2700m asl
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| sd |
Posted on 21-03-2012 21:19
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Member Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 892 Joined: 11.10.07 |
Yes to Gonia and there is only one widespread species in Africa - bimaculata Steve |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 21-03-2012 22:43
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9449 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Thank you, Steve!
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-03-2012 00:26
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Nice photo - well done!  To echo your post - I too saw Gonia today in England - but Gonia picea 
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 22-03-2012 07:46
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Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9449 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Chris, I was especially impressed by the fact that I observe Gonia at 7N ! Gonia isn't an equatorial genus, isn't it?!
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 22-03-2012 09:08
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
It's a very widely spread genus actually - according to Jim O'Hara's list of world tachinid genera it is found in all of the geographic zones. I have one from French Guiana so they probably do exist right on the Equator, but they are never really common and I think you just have to be lucky to stumble upon a colony. Where they occur they can be locally common.
Edited by ChrisR on 22-03-2012 09:08 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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