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Green shiny diptera
mwa66
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Posted on 12-07-2010 23:07
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I do not have any idea.
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http://www.dipter...to_id=1802 Maybe one of these...?
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Roger Thomason wrote:
http://www.dipter...to_id=1802 Maybe one of these...?
Look my one has much smaller eyes. I wa thinking about your suggestion as well but eyes are different.
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Female of the species....perhaps.
 
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Roger is right. Wink
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I photographed 2 of them male, female, and even body size differs: 5-9 mm.
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Are you sure the smaller one wasn't Microchrysa sp.? We have both Chrysomyia [EDIT Sorry, meant to write Chloromyia!] and Microchrysa here, and apart from the size they are not too dissimilar.
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Paul Beuk wrote:
Roger is right. Wink
Means Chloromyia formosa female
 
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