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Drosophila suzukii

I'm not sure if any of the other fruit flies have similar dark spots on the wings, so I keyed this one out fully using Mike Hackston's key to Drosophilidae. The second photo shows the sex combs at the tips of the basal two segments of the fore tarsus.


Drosophila suzukii Drosophila suzukii
male Drosophila suzukii, St Mary's Churchyard, North Elmham (Norfolk, UK), 6th December 2021