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#1 2010-07-15 20:07:23
- Richard Dickson
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- Name: Richard Dickson
- Registered: 2008-11-24
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Orange acalyptrates akin to Dryomyzidae
I am frustrated to have failed to run these two large orange flies to earth.
The first has a length of 9.1 mm and a wing length of 8.9 mm. It came from Denny Wood, New Forest on 2.ix.2009, netted near dead wood with fungus.
The second has a length of 9 mm and a wing length of 7.5 mm. It was swept from calcareous grassland, Bulford Field on Salisbury Plain on 22.vi.2009, but I appear to have a further specimen from Titchfield Haven, a wetland reserve, 23/24.vi.2008, Malaise trap. There is moist dead wood at the second site.
Please can anyone point me in the right general direction?
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#2 2010-07-15 22:39:22
Re: Orange acalyptrates akin to Dryomyzidae
Left looks like Neuractena anilis (Dryomyzidae), right I think is Psila (Psilidae).
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#3 2010-07-16 01:50:50
- Richard Dickson
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Re: Orange acalyptrates akin to Dryomyzidae
Thanks, Paul. What would we do without you? Richard
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#4 2010-07-16 10:34:55
Re: Orange acalyptrates akin to Dryomyzidae
Wait till someone else showed up with an answer. 
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