Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae: Morellia? (23.10.08) --> Eudasyphora cyanicolor

Posted by Juergen Peters on 27-10-2008 22:28
#1

Hello!

Is this a Morellia male? If so, it is the largest one of this genus I have ever seen: about 7-8 mm. Found four days ago at forest (northwest Germany).

Edited by Juergen Peters on 28-10-2008 23:56

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 27-10-2008 22:37
#2

Not Morellia (t2 have a pv). It is Eudasyphora or Dasyphora.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 27-10-2008 22:59
#3

Hello, Stephane!

Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Not Morellia (t2 have a pv). It is Eudasyphora or Dasyphora.


Thanks! Because of the size I also thought of these at first. But then I noticed the broad middle band ("bar") on the thorax. Isn't that characteristic for Morellia?

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 27-10-2008 23:07
#4

No, for instance, Eudayphora cyanicolor bear a well defined presutural white midstripe too.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 28-10-2008 23:42
#5

1. I can add that Morellia never has so bluish-green color, nor Dasyphora so few dusting.
2.
Eudayphora cyanicolor bear a well defined presutural white midstripe too
and bare eyes

Posted by Juergen Peters on 28-10-2008 23:47
#6

Hello, Nikita!

Thanks to you, too!

Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
and bare eyes


That is mostly an attribute I can't recognize on my photos :|. A possible hair covering usually drowns in diffusion... I think it needs much more experience than I have to recognize such things on pictures with the quality of mine.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 29-10-2008 00:10
#7

In this case you can't find hiars on eyes, because hairs absent ;)