Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Red frons in Muscidae
Posted by Johane on 10-12-2015 00:17
#1
How common is it that Muscidae have a red or orange frons and in which genera/species does it occur?
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 10-12-2015 07:13
#2
Hi Johan,
the Muscidae with orange frons are extremely rare. It is one of the trick to distinguish them from Anthomyiidae. I think about
Coenosia, like
C. testacea, which has orange on anterior part of frons, the genus
Atherigona, and there are perhaps a few species in
Coenosi-a (-ini) that doesn't come to my mind so early in the morning.
Posted by Johane on 10-12-2015 12:02
#3
The reason why I asked is this fly.
http://artportale...age/644932
Is it C. mollicula?
Edited by Paul Beuk on 10-12-2015 12:24
Posted by Johane on 10-12-2015 16:44
#5
It is not Coenosia mollicula or another Muscidae then?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 10-12-2015 18:22
#6
I don't know. I know it is not
Mycophaga testacea because that has partly reddish scutellum, but I do not know about related species. I cannot for certain say that it is Muscidae, but looking further in the Anthomyiidae gallery there is also this picture of
Pegomyia cf.
solennis:
http://www.dipter...to_id=6786. Oddly enough, the males of that species in the Gallery all have grey fore tibiae, the female's fore tibia is rather orange.
Anyway, I am venturing on thin ice as I know preciously little about Anthomyiidae...
Edited by Paul Beuk on 10-12-2015 18:27
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 10-12-2015 20:51
#7
The picture is very small, but I would say Anthomyiidae-Pegomya also.