Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Purple fly - Norway
Posted by Leif G on 01-08-2015 15:21
#1
From Southern Norway, July 22.
Small size, smaller than Phasia hemiptera that was feeding on the same flower.
ID-help needed. Thanks.
Leif
Posted by John Carr on 01-08-2015 16:14
#2
In America these
Lucilia-like flies with only one pair of postsutural acrostichals are
Neomyia. I don't know about Europe.
Posted by Leif G on 01-08-2015 16:41
#3
Thanks John. We got two species of Neomyia in Norway, cornicina and viridescens. From this I suppose my fly is Neomyia cornicina, the most common of the two.
Leif
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 01-08-2015 17:30
#4
John Carr wrote:
In America these Lucilia-like flies with only one pair of postsutural acrostichals are Neomyia. I don't know about Europe.
This is exactly the same in Europe ! :)
I can't see if it has prst acr, but with 3 post dc it should be
Neomyia cornicina indeed. The purple colour says : I'm very old now.
Posted by Leif G on 01-08-2015 17:32
#5
Thanks for the final confirmation and the words about the colour. I didn't know this.
Leif