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10-04-2009, 07:55 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: S. Devon
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| | | Robber fly for ID check please
In my S. Devon garden today.
Think it may be Dioctria but not sure which version. Similar to D. rufipes but the images I have found have brown fore legs and all black hind legs. Which doesn't match with my image which has black femora with the remainder brown.
Or is this another of those male/female variations?
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10-04-2009, 08:06 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Near Peterborough
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| | | Re: Robber fly for ID check please
oh you have no idea how much I'd love to be able to help..........
However, my main aim this year is to get better at hoverflies and solitary bees!
Oh and colourful soldierflies |
10-04-2009, 08:11 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: London
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| | | Re: Robber fly for ID check please
To me, personally, it looks more like one of the Bibionidae species. If it is an Asilid, what are the distinguishing features, Geoff?
...  EDIT: Looks like a Hawthorn Fly, Bibio varipes - Bibioidae
Last edited by Jason Green; 10-04-2009 at 08:16 PM.
Reason: Addition of Identification
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10-04-2009, 09:01 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln
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| | | Re: Robber fly for ID check please
Perhaps Bibio lanigerus? Look at the male on diptera.info |
10-04-2009, 10:47 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: S. Devon
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| | | Re: Robber fly for ID check please
Right, looks like we have this one sorted now. Bibio lanigerus it is. Thanks.
I was totally bemused by this little fly; but the tarsus looked like a Robber Fly so I searched the WAB Gallery which made me think about Dioctria. All the other Dioctria species were definitely wrong but D. rufipes was starting to look possible.
There are so many variations in each family, often with considerable differences, which makes it so easy to discount the whole tribe. B. varipes comes close but the leg colouration is wrong.
Gill, I have also tried to concentrate on just a few species until I really understand them; but oddities just seem to keep coming my way and I get side tracked once again. But I am trying to keep my macro photography reduced to 2 areas; my garden and an area of woodland alongside the estuary, which can only be accessed by small boat. But there are hundreds of species in just these areas.
Geoff. | | |
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