Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae > Polietes domitor
Posted by Raimo on 07-12-2025 21:09
#1
Mid Sweden June 12.
Edited by Raimo on 11-12-2025 22:04
Posted by eklans on 08-12-2025 09:41
#2
Hi Raimo, this is not
Polietes, but very hard to guess a genus without seeing the wing venation. My gut feeling says this female could be
Hydrotaea ignava.
Posted by Raimo on 10-12-2025 14:19
#3
Thankyou Eric.
Posted by eklans on 11-12-2025 06:20
#4
Sorry, Raimo, you are right! It's
Polietes domitor, the one I never saw!
Posted by Juergen Peters on 11-12-2025 19:58
#5
Hello Eric,
eklans wrote:
It's Polietes domitor, the one I never saw!
look in spring for flies sunbathing on leaves at forest edges. Mainly males are very numerous then. They seem to defend their own small areas.
The much bigger
Polietes lardarius I mostly find in late autumn (October/November) sunbathing on tree trunks.
Posted by Raimo on 11-12-2025 22:05
#6
Nice.