{"id":101,"date":"2011-08-29T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T21:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2011-08-31T00:20:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T00:20:36","slug":"linnaemya-picta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/linnaemya-picta\/","title":{"rendered":"Linnaemya picta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Linnaemya picta<\/em> was added to the British list after Howard Bentley got in touch with me with some dubious records for <em>L.rossica<\/em>, in Kent. <em>L.rossica<\/em> always occurs in upland areas and so a woodland in Kent just wasn&#8217;t a viable habitat. I contacted Theo Zeegers in Holland and he suggested that we check them against <em>L.picta <\/em>because that would be the most likely alternative &#8230; and it was.\u00a0I then contacted Nigel Wyatt at the BMNH and asked him to check their Kent holdings of <em>L.rossica<\/em> (they had some collected by Fonseca in the 50&#8217;s) and he confirmed that they too were all <em>L.picta<\/em> &#8211; a problem solved!<\/p>\n<p>Since Howard&#8217;s initial discovery Steve Downes &amp; Ivan Perry have discovered\u00a0<em>Linnaemya picta<\/em>\u00a0in good numbers in Suffolk &amp; Cambridgeshire (2011).<\/p>\n<p><em>L.picta<\/em> will key easily to <em>rossica<\/em> in the old Belshaw keys but can be distinguished easily:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Posterodorsal part of the head, behind the post-ocular row, with 2-8 long, stout bristles in addition to small black hairs mixed with the white hairs [palps almost as long as the length of the mentum] &#8230;&#8230;\u00a0<strong><em>rossica<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Zimin<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Posterodorsal part of the head, behind the post-ocular row, with just a scattering of fine black hairs mixed with the white hairs [palps less than half of the length of the mentum]\u00a0&#8230;&#8230;\u00a0<strong><em>picta<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Meigen)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linnaemya picta was added to the British list after Howard Bentley got in touch with me with some dubious records for L.rossica, in Kent. L.rossica&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[59,372],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-species","tag-howard-bentley","tag-linnaemya-picta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}