Posted by John Carr on 23-07-2011 15:09
#8
Thank you.
I recall a comment saying that Muscidae often spread wings and Anthomyiidae usually hold wings overlapping. With that and the four postsutural dorsocentrals this one wanted to confuse me.
How can you rule out
Egle brevicornis? The key I have seen (Huckett 1965) relies on head shape, head longer than high or not longer than high, to distinguish females of
ciliata (as
muscaria) and
brevicornis.
Also, how did
E. muscaria (Fabricius 1775) come to be considered a junior synonym of
E. ciliata (Walker 1849)?
Edited by John Carr on 23-07-2011 15:22