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 Unknown calliphorid in very strange habitat.
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| Isidro |
Posted on 08-12-2007 21:54
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2070 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Today at Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. 200 meters high, continental-mediterranean climate. I was breaking a dead trunk of Populus nigra in search of beetle larvae. In the most moist -very, very moist- part of the trunk, I had a big surprise for find.... ???an adult fly!!!! completely inside a medium-sized trunk. I thinks that the larvae of this fly was xylophagous and the fly was newly emerged... The size is the same than Musca domestica, more or less. About 5-6 mm. What can be?    and now in the habitat  I also found fles under barks: adults Lucilia, Calliphora vicina and Eristalis tenax, all in the same tree, looking for pass the winter... |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 09-12-2007 09:17
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 18832 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Melinda ? Theo |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 09-12-2007 09:42
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2070 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks... More suggestions? |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 10-12-2007 10:42
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Isidro My immediate impression was Melinda, but I didn't say so because I couldn't shed any light on your feeling that it was a xylophagous species. Melinda are parasites of snails and slugs. Susan |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 10-12-2007 17:08
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2070 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Thanks Susan.. Is not necessary that this fly have a xylophagous larva. The only thing that I know is that the adult fly was into roten wood, in a trunk of Populus. |
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