Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae?
Posted by jezlee on 13-08-2009 19:54
#1
Hello all - as a complete novice where diptera are concerned, am I at least in the right family with Muscidae for this one? Photographed in Wolverhampton, England, today.
Many thanks!
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 13-08-2009 19:55
#2
muscid is right.
Posted by jezlee on 13-08-2009 20:11
#3
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
muscid is right.
Thanks, Jorge! :)
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 13-08-2009 20:15
#4
Coenosia tigrina.
Posted by jezlee on 13-08-2009 22:54
#5
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Coenosia tigrina.
Wow! Spot on, Stephane! Are these so-called "Robber Flies", because I have seen various pictures of them on the Internet where they are clutching other flies and apparently eating them?
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 13-08-2009 23:21
#6
yes... Coenosia are famous for being predators. ;)
Posted by jezlee on 14-08-2009 11:15
#7
jorgemotalmeida wrote:
yes... Coenosia are famous for being predators. ;)
Thanks again, Jorge! :)