Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Calliphoridae

Posted by guenille on 12-08-2007 15:48
#1

My picture are not so good like Coswin's :(
I don't say if it is Protophormia terranovae or protocalliphora azurea.
Near Paris on july 26th
Thanks for help
Edith

img518.imageshack.us/img518/8183/dsc090133callimv5.jpg
img518.imageshack.us/img518/50/dsc090134callizo0.jpg

Posted by guenille on 13-08-2007 19:56
#2

Nobody interessing ? :(

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 13-08-2007 21:14
#3

I'm interesting :D
It is Calliphora itself.
Looks for me as C.vomitoria (but I don't know this family (yet:D).
Nikita

Posted by guenille on 14-08-2007 16:58
#4

Thanks Nikita but calliphoria vomitoria have not a blue thorax like mine.
I don't if it is a criterion :(

Posted by Susan R Walter on 14-08-2007 22:32
#5

Nikita

I'm not convinced either. Calypters yellowy-brown and only a little dusting on the thorax, none on the abdomen - why not P azurea?

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 15-08-2007 09:41
#6

Still I think it is Calliphora.
Theo? Tony? Kahis?

Posted by Zeegers on 15-08-2007 13:38
#7

I'm quiet, because I can't tell.
The squama seems dark, the wings are definitely folded as in Protocalliphora and I can't see the bristles right.
I don't see a red beard, but then again, Calliphora loewi could be an alternative.
So, for me, picture is not good enough, sorry.


Theo

Posted by guenille on 15-08-2007 15:23
#8

Sorry I haven't better picture :(
Pergaps another time, when sun will shining
Thanks for all yours helps
Edith

Posted by Zeegers on 15-08-2007 17:07
#9

Oke. last comment from my side:

The third antennal segment is short compared with the second, so it can't be Calliphora.
The calyptrae indeed is yellow.

So I'm with Susan: Protocalliphora, dark picture


Theo

Posted by Tony Irwin on 15-08-2007 21:18
#10

Yep, jizz is all Protocalliphora. Difficult to say exactly why other than the way the wings are held, but look at how low the head is positioned on the thorax - Calliphora heads are placed much higher. Also the abdomen is more evenly coloured.

Posted by guenille on 16-08-2007 05:51
#11

Thank you to have been given so much of sorrow in spite of my so
unpleasant photographs
Edith

Posted by Zeegers on 16-08-2007 13:06
#12

Well, perfect pictures are too easy for us, so...


Theo