Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Lucilia sp?
Posted by Iolaire on 01-10-2007 14:09
#1
Hi everybody,
This is Lucilia sp?
Any further ID possible?
Cheers!
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 01-10-2007 22:01
#2
Not Lucilia, but Neomyia (Muscidae).
Seems to be
Neomyia cornicina female.
Posted by Louis Boumans on 01-10-2007 23:21
#3
St?phane, how do you tell this is not a Lucilia but a muscid?
Posted by Iolaire on 02-10-2007 11:06
#4
Yes please tell, Stephane!
If it is Neomyia, I've probably misidentified several more!
Cheers!
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 02-10-2007 12:03
#5
Hello,
Neomyia are very similar to
Lucilia in appearance because of the angular bent on vein M, but
Neomyia have got shiny metallic green frons, occiput and genae (this last not visible on this picture, of course). In female, the frons is very wide, with broad orbitale plates.
Hope that helps...
Greetings.
Posted by Iolaire on 02-10-2007 13:03
#6
It helps!
Thanks very much!