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Orange Fly

DateThu 2011-07-21

An orange fly with distinctive wing markings: probably a male Minettia inusta (Diptera: Lauxaniidae) a female Palloptera quinquemaculata (Diptera: Pallopteridae).  Identified using the draft key of Stubbs, 1994.

Photos taken in Whiteknights Park, Reading University grounds, Reading, UK, on 2011-05-30.

AuthorTristram Brelstaff | CommentPost a Comment |
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