Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Green Stratiomydae?

Posted by Isidro on 18-06-2007 18:49
#1

This beautiful fly was seen last Saturday at Sabi?anigo, Aragon, Spain, in flowers of Angelica archangelica, in open shrubland near a train line. Same size than Chloromyia formosa: 9-10 mm.

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Some ideas?
Thanks ;)

Posted by Paul Beuk on 18-06-2007 18:55
#2

Chloromyia, but I will leave it to the others to say whether it is formosa or speciosa.

Posted by Isidro on 18-06-2007 22:16
#3

But.... I posted recently a Chloromyia and the eyes occuped all the head. In this fly the eyer are much smaller.

Can be a sexual difference? This one being a female, i that case.

Posted by Xespok on 19-06-2007 08:48
#4

Correct. This is the female.

Posted by Isidro on 19-06-2007 10:11
#5

Ahhh, OK. Unfortynately the tarses are not seen in the picture but as in the same place I found Ch. formosa, I let it as Chloromyia cf. formosa.

Many thanks to everybody!!!!!! :D