Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscina?
Posted by Sundew on 17-04-2008 12:39
#1
Hello,
I suppose this could be a
Muscina, not a
Phaonia, as to wing venation. Right? Seen in a Brandenburgian village on 31 March.
Sundew
Posted by Susan R Walter on 17-04-2008 12:54
#2
Yes, looks like
M prolapsa to me.
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 17-04-2008 13:52
#3
Muscina stabulans, tibiae, mid and hind femora are yellow (difficult to see without lightening the picture).
Posted by Susan R Walter on 18-04-2008 12:52
#4
St?phane
I though you might come back and say that :p I couldn't see the proboscis though, and they can't retract it can they? (I am sure you are correct with your ID, but I'm curious about the lack of proboscis.)
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 18-04-2008 13:55
#5
Muscina have retractile proboscis (licking type).
Posted by Susan R Walter on 18-04-2008 21:23
#6
Sorry - brain clearly scrambled today - I was thinking Stomoxys and writing Muscina - doh !
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 18-04-2008 21:30
#7
That's what I thought, don't worry.:)
Posted by Sundew on 18-04-2008 22:17
#8
So we'll finish this interesting discussion here. By the way, the fly's legs are brown even in very bright pictures (the literature terms their colour "cinnamon".)
Many thanks for the species ID,
Sundew