Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Mating on my chair in the garden.
Posted by wilde on 23-04-2007 13:46
#1
Do they belong to the Muscidae? Which species?
Edited by wilde on 23-04-2007 13:47
Posted by Zeegers on 23-04-2007 17:06
#2
Musca it is, species seems to be autumnalis
Theo Zeegers
Posted by wilde on 23-04-2007 18:38
#3
Thanks for your help.
Posted by wilde on 31-01-2008 17:09
#4
The eyes of the male don't reach eachother. Isn't it more likely to be Musca domestica?
Edited by wilde on 09-02-2008 18:32
Posted by wilde on 09-02-2008 12:12
#5
My photo doesn't match with the photos in the gallery of M. autumnalis. Nobody willing to give further comments?
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 09-02-2008 13:44
#6
Theo was right, it is
M.autumnalis - male frons is rather wide, and female has wide parafrontalia and narrow interfrontalia.
Nikita
Posted by wilde on 09-02-2008 17:55
#7
Thanks, but what are parafrontalia and interfrontalia? I never heard of these words.
On the internet I found out that the room between the eyes at the top of the head are the parafrontalia, but interfrontalia still are a puzzle. Please explain it to me.
Crex photo in the gallery shows a male C. autumnalis with eyes without any room between them at the top. Is its name wrong?
Edited by wilde on 09-02-2008 18:48
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 09-02-2008 22:11
#8
Hello,
parafrontaliae are the fronto-orbital plates, which are on each side of the middle dark vitta, called frontalia.
Male
Musca autumnalis has touching orbital plates or nearly so, but always narrower than in
M. domestica.
Posted by Andre on 09-02-2008 22:19
#9
Please look at the 'glossary' section of this site, for more info ;)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 09-02-2008 22:20
#10
Musca autumnalis alright! ;)
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 09-02-2008 22:22
#11
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Hello,
parafrontaliae are the fronto-orbital plates, which are on each side of the middle dark vitta, called frontalia.
Male Musca autumnalis has touching orbital plates or nearly so, but always narrower than in M. domestica.
see also the Overviews section. There are almost everything over there. ;)
Posted by Andre on 09-02-2008 22:25
#12
Damn.. can't find those words in the Glossary... :(
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 10-02-2008 11:11
#13
Frons consist of 3 parts - central one - interfrontalia, and two parafrontalia on both sides