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| richard_thomas100 |
Posted on 08-05-2007 20:19
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Hi, thanks all for your help so far, i've a few more that i'll try and post over the next day or so and get clearer images of those that people have requested. Does anybody have a clue what this species/genus this fly is? Taken on the 21st May last year at Powerstock Common, Dorset in a mixed woodland/meadow habitat - seemed to be sitting on a Common Spotted orchid. It was ~10 mm. Thanks Richard |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 08-05-2007 20:41
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It's an Asilid, but the abdominal pattern does not ring a bell. Should be very distinctive .... You don't have Cyrtopogon, do you ? Theo Zeegers |
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| richard_thomas100 |
Posted on 08-05-2007 20:55
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Hi Theo, I couldn't find a record in the UK checklist - here is a list of the UK recorded Asilidae Asilus crabroniformis Linnaeus, 1758 Choerades gilvus (Linnaeus, 1758) Choerades marginatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Dasypogon diadema (Fabricius, 1781) Dioctria atricapilla Meigen, 1804 Dioctria baumhaueri Meigen, 1820 Dioctria cothurnata Meigen, 1820 Dioctria linearis (Fabricius, 1787) Dioctria oelandica (Linnaeus, 1758) Dioctria rufipes (De Geer, 1776) Dysmachus trigonus (Meigen, 1804) Eutolmus rufibarbis (Meigen, 1820) Laphria flava (Linnaeus, 1761) Lasiopogon cinctus (Fabricius, 1781) Leptarthrus brevirostris (Meigen, 1804) Leptarthrus vitripennis (Meigen, 1820) Leptogaster cylindrica (De Geer, 1776) Leptogaster guttiventris Zetterstedt, 1842 Machimus arthriticus (Zeller, 1840) Machimus atricapillus (Falla33;n, 1814) Machimus cingulatus (Fabricius, 1781) Machimus cowini (Hobby, 1946) Machimus rusticus (Meigen, 1820) Neoitamus cothurnatus (Meigen, 1820) Neoitamus cyanurus (Loew, 1849) Neomochtherus pallipes (Meigen, 1820) Pamponerus germanicus (Linnaeus, 1758) Philonicus albiceps (Meigen, 1820) Rhadiurgus variabilis (Zetterstedt, [1838]) |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 08-05-2007 23:49
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My guess is a female Leptarthrus cf. brevirostris ... I have seen similar locally this year  |
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| richard_thomas100 |
Posted on 09-05-2007 00:23
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Hi Chris, thats great, i've had a check and i think you may be spot on! Much appreciated, Richard |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 09-05-2007 06:36
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I thought about Leptarthrus, haven't seen it in 20 years .. If you don't have Cyrtopogon, it must be that Theo |
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but don't see the image in the post.