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- Ramonda spathulata<\/strong><\/em>: bare eyes, strong bristles along the length of the parafacial, steeply curved post-bend median vein, extra pair of ocellar bristles. Receding “chin” giving a forward-leaning face. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Lypha dubia<\/strong><\/em>: densely hairy eyes, face slightly sloped – contrast with Ramonda <\/em>which has a “normal” head shape; post-bend median vein less concave. If you can see under the wing the pteropleural bristle would be long – reaching back to the calypters and the hind spiracle would be open with a pair of equally-sized flaps. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Macquartia sp<\/strong><\/em>.: Hairy eyes, quite close together – 3 pairs of scutellar bristles. Females of some species are brown with orange legs. All have hairy eyes and a very sloping face profile, with 3 pairs of scutellar bristles. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Brachychaeta strigata<\/strong><\/em>: relatively large head on a very anonymous black & grey fly. The most noticeable feature is that the frons is much wider than an eye, when viewed from above. Some of the body bristles seem exceptionally long – standing much higher than the depth of the abdomen or extending a long way from the scutellum. Media vein is not sharply angled or concave.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Triarthria setipennis<\/strong><\/em>: a small grey fly with very long basal arista segments. The arista on other tachinids is straight and quite thin so is often difficult to make out but on Triarthria <\/em>it can often be easy to see the angled segments. Only Gonia <\/em>and Germaria <\/em>in Britain share this feature and they are very different looking flies. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Lypha dubia<\/strong><\/em>: densely hairy eyes, face slightly sloped – contrast with Ramonda <\/em>which has a “normal” head shape; post-bend median vein less concave. If you can see under the wing the pteropleural bristle would be long – reaching back to the calypters and the hind spiracle would be open with a pair of equally-sized flaps. <\/li>\n\n\n\n