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 Small metallic fly, zigzag wing veins..
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| nick upton |
Posted on 11-05-2010 22:57
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I have no idea what family this small fly belongs to. The wing veins look odd to my untrained eyes. Can anyone help identify it at least to family? c 5mm Wiltshire southwest UK 11.5.10 Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 11-05-2010 22:58
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| nick upton |
Posted on 11-05-2010 22:58
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| pwalter |
Posted on 11-05-2010 23:03
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The most common species of this family are not metallic, however they have quite the same anatomy 
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| nick upton |
Posted on 11-05-2010 23:05
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OK, thanks, but WHICH family??!
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| Steve Pelikan |
Posted on 12-05-2010 00:32
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NickU wrote: OK, thanks, but WHICH family??! I'm guessing Walter meant family Syrphidae (Hoverfly family). |
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| tim worfolk |
Posted on 12-05-2010 05:33
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Eumerus, almost certainly strigatus. Tim |
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| pwalter |
Posted on 12-05-2010 08:18
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NickU wrote: OK, thanks, but WHICH family??! Check the red letters Regards, Walter Walter Pfliegler - Amateur Nature Photographer from Hungary (and molecular biologist) |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 12-05-2010 11:02
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OK, thanks Walter. How very clever... I must get better at noticing easy morphological aids to identification... I should also know by now that any fly I'm not sure of is usually a hoverfly... and thanks Tim for narrowing it to Eumerus, it looks just right for that, though maybe a microscope would be needed to be sure of the species. If strigatus is very common, though, that's probably right!
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but don't see the image in the post.