Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Calliphoridae? (16.03.22) --> Melinda sp. (f)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-03-2022 18:29
#1
Hello,
I am sorry to bother you again with such bad pictures :|. This 10 mm fly rested on a stone at the forestborder this afternoon (northwest Germany). Seems too slender and thorax too blue for
Calliphora. Could it be a female
Protophormia terraenovae?
Edited by Juergen Peters on 16-03-2022 19:06
Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-03-2022 18:29
#2
Pic #2
Posted by Zeegers on 16-03-2022 18:51
#3
Melinda, one of the two, a female.
Theo
Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-03-2022 19:05
#4
Hello Theo,
Zeegers wrote:
Melinda, one of the two, a female.
ah, thanks! Did not expect them so early (and so big).
Posted by Zeegers on 16-03-2022 21:42
#5
10 mm is OK and they are present first thing in spring … but spring of course shifts earlier and earlier …
Theo
Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-03-2022 23:25
#6
Hello Theo,
Zeegers wrote:they are present first thing in spring … but spring of course shifts earlier and earlier …
I normally see
Melinda first on sloe and later on hawthorn blossoms, and the sloe buds are only of pinhead size here these days...