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Lucilia silvarum ID? => Melinda cf. viridicyanea
runetk
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Posted on 13-11-2021 14:40
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Is it possible to ID this?
Location: North-Norway - Harstad
Habitat: Near the sea. In grasland/edge of birchforrest.
Size: 8.5mm - Date: 24.05.2020 - collected.
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Hi, it looks more like a Melinda to me: black palps, metallic blue, white calypters, frons smaller than one eye: M. cf. viridicyanea.
Greetings, Eric K
 
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Thank you so much Eric TumbsUp
best regards
Rune
 
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I have tried to key this with: Test key Steven Falk 2016
And think it is clearly a M. viridicyanea
ref: https://www.diptera-in-beeld.nl/key%20(draft)%20to%20British%20Blowflies%20Steven%20Falk%20132016.pdf

Norwegian species:
Melinda gentilis
Melinda viridicyanea

Keying (excluding M.gentilis):
absent Presutural intra-alar bristles (check picture)
Palp black, abdomen longer than the with.
result: Melinda viridicyanea
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