{"id":1152,"date":"2015-01-20T22:47:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T22:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2020-08-01T09:47:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T09:47:21","slug":"gonia-face-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/gonia-face-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonia face colour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the keys to <em>Gonia<\/em> one of the couplets asks you to consider the shininess of the face but this can be a confusing thing to judge when you only have one specimen. In this mini article I have taken photos of the 2 choices to make it clear. The first thing to do is to make sure that you are looking from the front with even light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-capitata-female-CMTR-15-01-20_153850_MA_R8_S4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1153\" src=\"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-capitata-female-CMTR-15-01-20_153850_MA_R8_S4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Gonia capitata (female) CMTR 15-01-20_153850_M=A_R=8_S=4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-capitata-female-CMTR-15-01-20_153850_MA_R8_S4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-capitata-female-CMTR-15-01-20_153850_MA_R8_S4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-capitata-female-CMTR-15-01-20_153850_MA_R8_S4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-capitata-female-CMTR-15-01-20_153850_MA_R8_S4-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-capitata-female-CMTR-15-01-20_153850_MA_R8_S4-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-capitata-female-CMTR-15-01-20_153850_MA_R8_S4-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-capitata-female-CMTR-15-01-20_153850_MA_R8_S4.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-divisa-male-CMTR-15-01-20_154609_MC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1154\" src=\"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-divisa-male-CMTR-15-01-20_154609_MC-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Gonia divisa (male) CMTR 15-01-20_154609_M=C\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-divisa-male-CMTR-15-01-20_154609_MC-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-divisa-male-CMTR-15-01-20_154609_MC-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-divisa-male-CMTR-15-01-20_154609_MC-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-divisa-male-CMTR-15-01-20_154609_MC-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-divisa-male-CMTR-15-01-20_154609_MC-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-divisa-male-CMTR-15-01-20_154609_MC-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gonia-divisa-male-CMTR-15-01-20_154609_MC.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The first photo shows <em>Gonia capitata<\/em> (but also <em>ornata<\/em> looks like this) and these are the species described as &#8220;reflective yellowish-white&#8221; while the last photo shows <em>Gonia divisa<\/em>, which is the species described as &#8220;matt orange&#8221;. Really both species have an orange face but <em>capitata<\/em>\/<em>ornata<\/em> are highly dusted with reflective scales while <em>divisa<\/em> is not shiny..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the keys to Gonia one of the couplets asks you to consider the shininess of the face but this can be a confusing thing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[362],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-gonia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","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=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}