Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae or Calliphoridae?
Posted by Juergen Peters on 27-02-2008 17:34
#1
Hello!
Unfortunately I could take only this photograph, before this fly flew away (today at banana bait in our garden, northwest Germany), and the wing venation is not visible very well. Size of a normal house fly, I first thought of one of the many
Muscina levida there. But it has a bluish shine on the thorax and lacks the orange tip at the scutellum. So what could it be? A rather small
Calliphora? Or possibly some other Calliphorid?
Edited by Juergen Peters on 27-02-2008 17:39
Posted by Zeegers on 27-02-2008 17:52
#2
Does not look like Calliphora ( the genus) to me, but difficult to see.
The bend in vein M seems broadly rounded, which, indeed, would suggest Muscidae.
Could be something like Phormia regina, though.
Theo
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 28-04-2008 21:38
#4
Looks like Muscina without red tipped scutellum indeed...
Posted by Juergen Peters on 30-04-2008 03:07
#5
Hello!
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Looks like Muscina without red tipped scutellum indeed...
Sorry, I overlooked Theo's reply from february. So it was good, that there were new answers! :) Thanks to all!