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Protocalliphora azurea | A British Calliphorid for ID
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Posted on 26-03-2019 00:20
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England, Surrey, Bookham Common, 25 March 2019.

Is this one of the bird nestling specialists? (The adult was feeding on a bird dropping, by the way)

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It is Protophormia terranovae. Itself not a bird feeder, but its sisters are.

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Thanks a lot!
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Looks more like Protocalliphora azurea female to me.

I caught my first of the year on Sunday here in Reading.

I often come across them on bird droppings.
 
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Actually, it does! That's what I thought in the first place, but maybe coloration is not that important, and there is some structural character which is visible on the photo?
That's why I posted it here...
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Yes, Protocalliphora azurea female.
 
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The calypter is pretty dark ?

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The specimen escaped when I tried to box it, but I have this not very good photo, where you can see some of the calypter, I think. It's pretty dark:

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But it could always be the lighting...
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Hi guys,

of course, it is yellow in azurea, but at first I ruled it as “too dark”.
But at a close look, the upper calypter is pretty light. So you are right, indeed.

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Thanks everybody! Solved =)
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