Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Platycheirus big foot male
Posted by blowave on 05-09-2010 00:02
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Well, I don't know what to say! ;)
2nd September, same location as the others, south of Lincoln UK. Feeding on Lythrum salicaria at the side of a roadside drain, part of my garden. Old woodlands and heathlands.
5 pics. Big feet. Can't find anything like it, not even a sketch of the front tarsi but I tried to key it and got Platycheirus tatricus. Another one we don't have! Of course I don't know.
Janet :o
Posted by blowave on 05-09-2010 00:03
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Posted by Andre on 06-09-2010 20:37
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Interesting too!!! Sorry, can't help you, for the obvious reason.
Catch it? :|
Listen, your region is very much underexplored. Who knows what to find there!
Posted by blowave on 06-09-2010 20:44
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I have only seen this one once Andre.
Yes, my region has been viewed as barren, which is ridiculous! It's only with the likes of myself who is crazy enough to spend hours in the garden taking pics then trying to identify them that so many insects are being found here! That is apart from the type of plants I have grown which insects prefer.
The list I have of rare, or south coast only, or below the invisible line from the 'Wash' in East Anglia is extensive.
Posted by Andre on 06-09-2010 20:56
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Next year, same time, you should organize a nice camp for dipteristst in your garden! :D
Posted by Andre on 06-09-2010 21:26
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After studying some more, I have to say that we have to stick to a darker male
Plat. cf. albimanus.
Posted by blowave on 06-09-2010 23:28
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Andre wrote:
Next year, same time, you should organize a nice camp for dipteristst in your garden! :D
Lol, I was thinking you might like to visit! I'm afraid I would be too protective of my insects.
I had compared this one to P. albimanus, but after carefully looking I decided it didn't fit. I don't know, it's a little confusing! You are probably right. :)
Posted by Andre on 06-09-2010 23:40
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I probably am. Experience...
Anyway, next summer I will be near, when the international Syrphidae Symposium will be held in Glasgow :)
Posted by Andre on 06-09-2010 23:44
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But you have to go to sleep, to catch us some more.... ;)
Posted by blowave on 07-09-2010 01:29
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Glasgow is a looooong was north of me! Unless you are travelling from south to north you would have a long journey but that would depend on how keen you are!
Don't get your hopes up... ;)
Posted by Andre on 07-09-2010 02:20
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For me it's near. And why don't you visit the Symposium!!?
Posted by blowave on 07-09-2010 14:20
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Andre wrote:
For me it's near. And why don't you visit the Symposium!!?
I haven't been invited! It might be interesting though, isn't it only for experts?
I don't think I would like the expense of going there either.
I keep looking at that tarsae, in pic 3 yes it can easily fit P. albimanus but in the first one and crop where the tarsae is extended the first segment looks much too short, and at least the first two look to have a 'v' notch in them. It shows how pictures can so easily make them look different at different angles. :S
Posted by Andre on 07-09-2010 15:46
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The invitations will take a bit longer. The organisation has not started yet I think. Don't worry. Of previous ones there also was information on DI present.
It is for everyone interested in all the different facets of Syrphidae life!
It shows why we have difficulties ID'ing this genus based on photos....