Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Which Calliphora?

Posted by Zeegers on 02-02-2018 14:30
#4

Let's start with thr simplest solution: vicina.

All Calliphora are extremely similar. Rognes did a great job in describing the differences, I am not going to copy. In any case: you can only suggest another species if you are dead-sure it is not vicina, since 99.5% is vicina. Only in boreo-mountainous regions (like Norway) this is not true.

This one clearly is vicina:darkened calypter and yellow basicosta.

Theo