{"id":987,"date":"2012-05-09T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T14:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/?p=987"},"modified":"2012-05-15T17:53:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:53:47","slug":"botria-subalpina-found-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/botria-subalpina-found-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Botria subalpina found in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Botria (=Bothria) subalpina<\/em> is a Spring species previously thought to be found in northern & eastern Europe – I have specimens from Finland and Bavaria. But recently\u00a0Murdo Macdonald sent some flies to the National Museum of Scotland and David Horsfield spotted a fly that keyed out to Bothria subalpina<\/em> in the Central European key. He sent the specimen to Hans-Peter Tschorsnig in Germany who confirmed the identification!<\/p>\n

Apparently the name has changed from Bothria<\/em> to Botria\u00a0<\/em>due to a Rondani misspelling that has only recently come to light. Also Villeneuve wrote in his 1910 type description for subalpina<\/em> that he had been sent a specimen taken near Birmingham by Wainwright. It would be interesting to track down this specimen and confirm the identification and locality.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo of a specimen from Finland and a very bad photo of one from Germany:<\/p>\n

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Currently, in Belshaw, this species would get lost around couplet #27 \u00a0because it looks like it should go to #28 (Phorocera<\/em>\/Parasetigena<\/em>) but the basals are between 2-3x as long as the scutellum so it is weak here and of course if you go to #28 it isn’t Parasetigena<\/em> because Botria<\/em> has median discals and it isn’t Phorocera<\/em> because the male genitalia are all wrong (smaller than Phorocera<\/em>) and it has pale tibiae. I think the pale tibiae are probably the best way to split Botria<\/em> out but I need to double-check all of the other alternatives from #27 onwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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