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18-03-2010, 12:50 PM
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| | | Cranefly - Nephrotoma Sp? feeding.
Can anyone confirm my tentative ID for this pretty yellow cranefly as Nephrotoma appendiculata?
Photographed on 27.6.09 in Wiltshire, feeding on Common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) flowers.
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18-03-2010, 08:44 PM
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| | | Re: Cranefly - Nephrotoma Sp? feeding.
I'm afraid that my Tipulidae knowledge is rather limited so the best I can do is to point you towards this site Diptera.info - Photo Albums: Tipulidae although you may well already be familiar with the Dipteria site.
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19-03-2010, 09:49 AM
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| | | Re: Cranefly - Nephrotoma Sp? feeding.
Thanks Geoff for that tip... The shot has been up on the general invert ID area of Diptera.info for a week or so, with no responses, hence the extra posting here, but I didn't know there was a Tipulidae subsection. As you say, I may just need to be patient and the right expert may happen across my photo on one site or other, I did just get a mosquito ID confirmed today after a week.
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19-03-2010, 06:20 PM
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| | | Re: Cranefly - Nephrotoma Sp? feeding.
This is a female tiger cranefly and I think this could be Nephrotoma flavescens which is more commonly found on chalk grassland
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19-03-2010, 06:47 PM
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| | | Re: Cranefly - Nephrotoma Sp? feeding.
Many thanks "bugbotherer" for the steer towards Nephrotoma flavescens rather than N. appendiculata. I'm adding a different shot of the same insect with a higher angle of view in case it helps to be sure. The location was on limestone grassland, so the habitat may be pretty much right.
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20-03-2010, 04:41 PM
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| | | Re: Cranefly - Nephrotoma Sp? feeding.
I'm still leaning towards N.flavescens
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| | | Re: Cranefly - Nephrotoma Sp? feeding.
OK thanks. Looks right to me too.
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