Coproica vagans (Haliday, 1833), (a lesser dung fly)

17 May 2014 at OSGR: SZ08 in Dorset, England

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Record Summary	Male, on washed up seaweed at strandline
Found as	Male imago
Date	17 May 2014
OS grid ref	OSGR: SZ08
Lat/Lon	50° 40’ N, 1° 60’ W
Vice County	Dorset, VC no: 9
Country	England
Voucher	17 May 2014[K] (Please quote this in any queries about this record)

The following literature was used to identify this find:

Pitkin, B.R., 1988. Lesser Dung Flies (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae). Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects , Vol 10. Part 5e, 175pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

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Coproica vagans (Haliday, 1833), (a lesser dung fly)

17 May 2014 at OSGR: SZ08 in Dorset, England

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