Thread subject: Diptera.info :: grey and gold Pollenia

Posted by Susan R Walter on 23-11-2008 21:52
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I've been looking at Pollenia a bit recently, and I can tell you that your males are not rudis, as yours have contiguous fronto-orbital plates. Rudis males have the orbital plates clearly divided by the frontal vitta, unlike most (but not all) male Pollenia.