Microdon mutabilis sens.lat., (a pair of ant hoverflies distinguishable only as puparia)


4 Jun 2015 at OSGR: SZ09 in Dorset, England

Record Summarymale, basking on dead leaves of Purple Moor-grass
Found asMale imago
Date4 June 2015
OS grid refOSGR: SZ09
Lat/Lon50° 50’ N, 1° 60’ W
Vice CountyDorset, VC no: 9
CountryEngland
Voucher4 Jun 2015[D]
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Notes:

Distance between scutellum teeth 77% of length of scutellum (very difficult to see through the pile and where do you measure the length to?). Genital capsule brown.

From damp heathland so likely to be M. myrmicae rather than M. mutabilis.

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