Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Scathophagidae

Posted by walwyn on 29-10-2022 01:42
#1

Photographed on 22nd October 2022 on farm track near sheep pasture in Warwickshire. Nearby crops during the summer were beans, wheat, maize, and flax.

Edited by walwyn on 29-10-2022 13:04

Posted by walwyn on 29-10-2022 01:44
#2

Male view

Posted by Fred Fly on 29-10-2022 11:55
#3

Scathophagidae: Scathophaga decipiens (might be possible that in GB it is still called Conisternum decipiens)

Posted by walwyn on 29-10-2022 12:59
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Thanks Fred I was looking at wing veins and they just didn’t look like Scathophagidae. Mind you they didn’t look like much else either.