Dalgety Bay - Sarc-asm

So maybe someone will remember this lovely duo - a Pipunculid and an intriguing small calypterate taken not only on the same day but in the same sweep. I had reservations about the initial tachinid determination of the calypterate and when I whipped out its bits I was pretty convinced it was a sarcophagid. Turns out to be true, and what a tiny sarcophagid it is! I'm used to them being enormous - usually the biggest flies in any batch and longer easily than both these placed end to end. Maybe I can post a side-by-side later.

Anyway, finally I cleared the decks enough yesterday to determine that it's Pierretia nigriventris, which I thought was new for county until I checked NBN this morning. It wasn't in the Nature of Fife 2006 county list though so it's new-ish! It has a curious distribution on NBN, which seems to include about 75% of coastal squares in Wales!

Everything else is more-or-less routine apart from a new hover for me in the shape of Neoascia tenur (which may turn out to be N.meticulosa ... but still new in both cases!)

Numbers:

754		lep-moth	Eupithecia vulgata	Common Pug
755		lep-moth	Odontopera bidentata	Scalloped Hazel
756		lep-moth	Opisthograptis luteolata	Brimstone Moth
757		lep-moth	Xanthorhoe designata	Flame Carpet
758		diptera	Helophilus pendulus	A hover fly
759		diptera	Sarcophaga subvicina	A flesh fly
760	*	diptera	Neoascia tenur	A hover fly
761		diptera	Lucilia caesar	A blow fly
762		lep-moth	Nola confusalis	Least Black Arches
763		lep-moth	Incurvaria masculella	Feathered Diamond-back
764		diptera	Delia platura	A flower fly
765		diptera	Merodon equestris	A hover fly
766		flowering plant	Calystegia sepium	Hedge Bindweed
767		lep-moth	Endrosis sarcitrella	White-shouldered House-moth
768		diptera	Fannia similis	A lesser house fly
769		diptera	Myathropa florea	A flower fly
770		fungus	Calocybe gambosa	St.George's Mushroom