Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Are the Lucilia flies recognisable by a picture?

Posted by Isidro on 03-08-2007 12:04
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Can be this one identified knowing that only are three species in the zone, L. caesar, L. cuprina and L. sericata?

I always was corious about the difference in colour being ones bright green and others coppery-greeen as this one. The name L. cuprina is very attractive for the coppery ones.

Is the colour a possible identification character, or all the three species can have any colour? Is the genitalia the only character that can differenciate the species?

This male was yesterday at Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, in my garden.

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img02.picoodle.com/img/img02/9/8/3/f_Lucilia2m_12015de.jpg

Thanks ;)