Friday, 13 March 2015

Lesser Dung Fly week

Apparently. A second species of lesser dung fly has been obtained, this time from a pitfall trap. The previous swept one was Leptocera, wheareas this one is a Borborus. The terminated vein 5 is characteristic of the group



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2 comments:

  1. Came here after seeing your request on Steve Gale's blog. You might be able to get a Pitkin key from Michael Ackland. He is very helpful.......
    http://www.dipteristsforum.org.uk/t3648-sphaeroceridae.html

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    1. Thanks very much Andrew. I have one coming from EntSoc and I can borrow one from a friend in the meantime so I'm sorted :)

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