Saturday
Aug142010
Stiletto Fly
Sat 2010-08-14
A stilleto fly, probably Thereva nobilitata (Diptera: Therevidae). When I first saw it I thought it was a hairy kind of snipe fly (family Rhagionidae) but the dark shiny marking between the eyes seems to be a characteristic of female Thereva sp. (see here for further details).
Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading, UK, on 2010-08-03.
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