Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Large Calliphora (non-vicina?)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 20-10-2008 21:35
#1
Hello!
Any chance to tell from these angles, whether this is
not Calliphora vicina? It was very large (13-14 mm) and dark. Found today in our wintergarden (northwest Germany).
Posted by Juergen Peters on 20-10-2008 21:36
#2
Pic #2
Posted by Juergen Peters on 20-10-2008 21:36
#3
Pic #3
Posted by Robert Heemskerk on 20-10-2008 21:47
#4
why not a big female? Calliphora vicina
Posted by Juergen Peters on 20-10-2008 22:15
#5
Hello, Robert!
Robert Heemskerk wrote:
why not a big female? Calliphora vicina
I thought even from these unfavourable angles there should be visible some parts of the more yellowish face (???).
Posted by Susan R Walter on 22-10-2008 14:39
#6
I think it is likely to be vicina. Size isn't really relevant in distinguishing the species of Calliphora. It seems to me to have a reddish face in the second image, and the white borders of the calypters seem quite broad. It is probably one of those vicina with a dull coloured anterior spiracle and relatively dark tegula and wing bases.
Posted by Zeegers on 22-10-2008 19:45
#7
Impossble to say.
Could be vicina, could be loewi.
Theo
Posted by Juergen Peters on 22-10-2008 21:34
#8
Zeegers wrote:
Impossble to say.
Could be vicina, could be loewi.
Thanks, Theo. Next time I try to get better pics.