Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Choerades marginatus?

Posted by jeremyr on 20-09-2012 12:19
#1

Is this fly Choerades marginatus? There were several of them about the woods in north london

Jeremy

Edited by jeremyr on 20-09-2012 12:20

Posted by jeremyr on 20-09-2012 12:21
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Posted by Quaedfliegh on 20-09-2012 23:13
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You are right, almost B).....There seems to be a very close relative, Choerades femorata. Have a look here: http://www.robberflies.info/keyger/htmle/vorwort.html

Edited by Quaedfliegh on 20-09-2012 23:14

Posted by sd on 28-09-2012 13:59
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femorata is sometimes considered a variety of marginatus. In the UK, specimens do match with femorata but have always been recorded as marginatus. See M Smart 2009 Dipterist Digest vol16 #1 p40.
It will be interesting to see how it is treated in the forthcoming 2nd edition of Stubbs and Drake "British Soldierflies and their Allies"

Steve