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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lucilia silvarum - male

Posted by Tony T on 08-08-2008 13:29

17 September 2007, NB, Canada. Length: 7.5mm
In a PM Susan asked me to post images of L. silvarum.
This is the beast I ID'd as silvarum. Yes? No?
I have a dorsal and a face shot if needed.

EDIT: specific epithet corrected (was sylvarum)

Edited by Tony T on 25-08-2008 14:16

Posted by Susan R Walter on 08-08-2008 14:14

Can I have a shot that shows me the width and proportions between the eyes please? The dorsal shot should tell me what I want to know I should think, but the more the merrier :)

Posted by Tony T on 08-08-2008 15:45

Susan R Walter wrote:
Can I have a shot that shows me the width and proportions between the eyes please? :)

Posted by Tony T on 08-08-2008 15:47

Susan R Walter wrote:
The dorsal shot should tell me what I want to know I should think, but the more the merrier :)

Posted by Susan R Walter on 23-08-2008 16:20

Yep - male Lucilia silvarum . Can you submit all three pics to the gallery please :) Having looked a few of this specimen now, I find the darkened lower calypter is a good clue to tell you that silvarum is likely.

Posted by Tony T on 24-08-2008 02:14

Thanks Susan. I have submitted all sylvarum and the 1 sericata.

At the risk of flogging a dead horse - Diptera.info is getting to be impossible to use; very slow, constant crashes:(

Edited by Tony T on 24-08-2008 02:14

Posted by ChrisR on 25-08-2008 10:38

Can I confirm something here (for the gallery) - from the experts? B)

Tony keeps calling these sylvarum and Susan calls them silvarum. In Europe we have silvarum but are we talking about a Nearctic species called sylvarum?

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 25-08-2008 11:01

that's easy, Chris. sylvarum is a typo. The correct is L. silvarum.
In an Italian site they told :"Lucilia silvarum: In letteratura citata anche come sylvarum (grafia successiva incorretta)." ;)

and:
http://www.sel.ba...509&-find=

Posted by Susan R Walter on 25-08-2008 14:03

Chris - so far as I know it is silvarum (Meigen) and sylvarum is a misspelling.