Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
Who is here? 1 guest(s)
 wingless fly
|
|
| jane bowman |
Posted on 13-01-2008 15:41
|
|
Member Location: Posts: 70 Joined: 28.12.07 |
Interested to know the identity of this fly found on a birch tree in the scottish highlands last July. Would also be interested in peoples opinions as to 'what happened to the wings?' Thanks Jane Bowman jane bowman attached the following image:  [152.33Kb] |
|
|
|
| Kahis |
Posted on 13-01-2008 18:44
|
 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
1. It is a bluebottle (Calliphora - Calliphoridae) 2. I'd say it has been eaten by a predator - perhaps a dragonfly. Something has chewed though the abdomen and empied it. Kahis |
 |
|
| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 14-01-2008 13:57
|
 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Looking at the neat narrow white border on the calypters, and being in an upland location, it seems to me that there is a good chance this is not C vicina, but one of the other Calliphora spp.
Susan |
|
|
|
| jane bowman |
Posted on 15-01-2008 10:24
|
|
Member Location: Posts: 70 Joined: 28.12.07 |
Thanks for help with this everyone Jane |
|
|
|
| Jump to Forum: |
