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Tachinidae or Calliphoridae?
Juergen Peters
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Hello!

A 7 mm fly from the UV light, July-03, northwest Germany. Tachinid or Calliphorid?
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Pollenia sp.Smile
 
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Hello, Rui!

Rui Andrade wrote:
Pollenia sp.Smile


Thanks, I suspected something like that... Pollenia is ubiquitous here at the moment, but on this one I could not really see any golden hair (which is recognizeable mostly on even very worn specimens), so I hoped it was something other...
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Yes, sometimes it's difficult to see golden hairs in Pollenia as shown in the first photo. Nevertheless you can still see some small sparse golden hairs.
 
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Pollenia sp. is right. Smile very worn. Pfft
 
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