Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lucilia sp. or Neomyia sp ???

Posted by valter on 18-05-2009 19:50
#1

Location: Algarve, Portugal

Date: May 2009

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Thanks,
Valter

Edited by valter on 23-05-2009 13:32

Posted by Tony Irwin on 18-05-2009 20:46
#2

I'm fairly sure this is a Lucilia. Its tattered wings and copper colour indicate that it is an old individual. All green metallic flies change colour as they become old, usually to bronze then copper.

Posted by Tony Irwin on 21-05-2009 20:55
#3

Valter - I'm not certain which calliphorid this is - it may not be Lucilia - but I was wondering what characters you are using to decide that it is Melinda?

Posted by valter on 21-05-2009 22:45
#4

It has too little green colour, almost bluish, perhaps a Melinda...

Posted by Tony Irwin on 21-05-2009 23:24
#5

You may be right, though the tip of the abdomen looks rather green to me. I suppose that could just be reflection from the leaf... but the blue on the thorax might be relection of the sky !!! ;)

Posted by valter on 21-05-2009 23:28
#6

Tony Irwin wrote:
but the blue on the thorax might be relection of the sky !!! ;)


The sky was grey at that time!

Posted by Rui Andrade on 21-05-2009 23:40
#7

Lol:D. I think that the thorax is a little bit grey:).

Posted by Zeegers on 22-05-2009 11:48
#8

It is too short for a Melinda, in my opinion.

Are we sure it is a Calliphoridae ?

Might be Neomyia or some other of these Muscids ?


Theo

Posted by Tony Irwin on 23-05-2009 07:26
#9

I'm not certain - I just felt that the abdominal bristles were more like Lucilia than a muscid. AFAIK the same change in colour applies, whether a muscid, calliphorid or tachinid.

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 23-05-2009 13:08
#10

I think there is more than one postsutural acrostichal pair, so not a green muscid.
Lucilia sp. to me.