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white face - muscidae?
Robert Heemskerk
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Posted on 11-08-2006 01:38
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Hi flyforum,

This (male)fly I found last month in the Amsterdam Woodforest.

I give some characteristics:

- Yellow braun shining around costa in the wing
- arista got branchy fethers
- face is (very) white
- 2nd + 3rd segment is yellow banded
- The alula is yellow/orange coloured
- DM -CU got a nice wave curve
- The katepisternum (underbody) is whitish
- dark glossy scutem
- legs dark, tibia a bit dark braun/red, 1st femur got white parts

The wing tells me it is a kind of muscidae, but I am not sure.

greeting robert
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Robert

It crosses my mind that this is Anthomyidae. Something about the bristles on the mid tibia - but I am doing this from memory, so will probably be wrong againSad, especially as I am really rubbish on bristles.
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Thank you for your reaction Susan.

It is hard to see some crucial characteristics to be more sure..
I think it is more Fanniidae than Anthomyidae.., R4 + 5 vein is more straight line with a tiny curve.. It is a pitty we can not see vein A1 + A2...

Is the yellowish of the veins on the forside of the wing not something for Fannia canicularis??

Smile robert,
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