Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Pollenia (atramentaria?) or Calliphora? (13.03.22) --> Calliphora vomitoria (m)

Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-03-2022 19:00
#1
Hello,

unfortunately I could only take photos from a distance of 2 m of these flies. At a sap flow of a cut branch at the forestborder (northwest Germany).

Besides some Muscina levida and a few other flies, the was a bigger male (~10 mm). I'm not sure, if I see some blue at the abdomen, which would speak for Calliphora (vomitoria?) or not.

There were many Pollenia on the wing yesterday, but on this fly pollen hides the typical scrubby thorax hairs.
Edited by Juergen Peters on 14-03-2022 19:56

Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-03-2022 19:00
#2
Pic #2

Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-03-2022 19:01
#3
Pic #3

Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-03-2022 19:01
#4
Pic #4

Posted by Zeegers on 14-03-2022 19:35
#5
check pic 3: red beard !

—>. C. vomitoria

Posted by Juergen Peters on 14-03-2022 19:55
#6
Hello Theo,

Zeegers wrote:
check pic 3: red beard !


yes, that brought me to my second assumption. But I was unsure, becaus only some reddish yellow hairs are visible.

—>. C. vomitoria

Thanks a lot!