Posted by Kahis on 09-09-2004 16:44
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Muscina sp. I have
M. stabulans and
M. levida in my collection:
M. levida is darker and not so strongly striped;
M. stabulans is very close in colour, but has a narrow dark frontal vitta. So it is either
angustifrons, prolapsa or
pascuorum.
On the topic of Muscidae, I've spent the last evenings sorting through arctic
Spilogona I collected last July from northernmost Finland. They are ... not easily identified. But with the help of male genitalia one can make some sense, and the effort is well rewarded:
Spilogona tornensis, S. krogerusi, S. norvegica, and of course more normal species like
S. brunneisquama, contractifrons, depressiuscula, litorea and
pacifica. Some of those are new for Finland and I need to find someone who can confirm the identification - Adrian Pont perhaps?
Jere