Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae
Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-05-2006 17:01
#1
Can anyone help me with this one? I think it is Muscidae, but no idea from there.
Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-05-2006 17:04
#2
Another view. Male, 9mm, from east London cemetery park, 29 April 2006
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 20-05-2006 17:19
#3
Hi Susan.
I think it is Pollenia sp., Calliphoridae. Few red hairs on thorax, but chess-like colour of abdomen and venation...
Nikita
Posted by Kahis on 20-05-2006 20:56
#4
Nikita's analysis in spot-on. Some
Pollenia specimens have very few curly hairs on the
mesonotum![header=[mesonotum] body=[The thorax is composed of three basic segments of which the second (mesothorax is the largest. The mesonotum is the dorsal part of the mesothorax and it constitutes most of the dorsal part of the thorax. It is composed of the prescutum (not differentiated in most Diptera, except for some Nematocera), the scutum and the scutellum.
Image courtesy of Japan Drosophila Database (http://www.dgrc.kit.ac.jp/~jdd/bodyparts/index.html)<br /><img src='http://www.diptera.info/infusions/terms/images/mesonotum.gif' style='vertical-align:middle;' />] delay=[0] fade=[on]](infusions/terms/images/help.gif)
but some are always present on the pleurae.
Posted by Susan R Walter on 20-05-2006 21:01
#5
Oh yes - I see them now that you mention it. Thanks once again.