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Muscidae: Helina pertusa
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Posted on 12-12-2013 20:02
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7mm. Southern England, October 2012. Keyed ok as far as 4 rows as presutural acrostichals, then with less confidence to pertusa (dead end as genitalia wrong and hairs on hind femora not dense or short enough). Is it even in this genus (no posterodorsal around basal third of hind tibia).
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Dorsal view.
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Genitalia.
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Helina pertusa seems a good ID. Wink
Stephane.
 
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Ah thank you Stephane, looking at the genitalia in lateral view the evenly concave lower edge of the cercal plates is a good fit and doesn't seem shared by many other Helina. Oh to have more confidence when naming these.
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Hi Liancalus

also need to check that pra is shorter than 2nd ntpl seta and 2:2 stpl setae
A close up of these would be useful to confirm and for the gallery
With Best Wishes
Dr Elisabeth A. Harris
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Thanks for the feedback Elisabeth. I can confirm pntpl > pra and stpl 2 +2. Unfortunately I don't think I can produce worthwhile images of these features with my current lighting and camera set-up (holding compact to eyepiece, trying not to shake too much).
 
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You have some really good flies here for us to see so thanks very much, it's fun to play along too especially with some of the rarer ones
Dr Elisabeth A. Harris
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Thank you Elisabeth, that is good. I have been very pleased to find other people interested in Muscids on this forum. I have only previously collected these incidentally while doing other things. Help here has been invaluable in making progress and I will be paying them more attention in the future (Phaonia subventa in sunny weather today).
 
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