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Juergen Peters
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Posted on 21-01-2007 00:54
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Hello!

Here two Muscids (size of a normal house fly) from yesterday night at our house (Ostwestfalen/Germany). The one on pics 1+2 should belong to genus Phaonia (?). Is the one on pic 3 a Polietes? Thanks in advance!


www.foto-upload.de/diptera/070119/Phaonia_sp_W1.jpg
www.foto-upload.de/diptera/070119/Phaonia_sp_W2.jpg


www.foto-upload.de/diptera/070119/Polietes_lardarius_W.jpg
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Hello!

Here two additional indivuduals of the first fly from tonight:

www.foto-upload.de/diptera/070121/Phaonia_sp_W1.jpg

www.foto-upload.de/diptera/070121/Phaonia_sp_W2.jpg
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Jürgen

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Susan R Walter
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Jurgen

What about Muscina for your 3rd image? I don't think Polietes has that orange tip to the scutellum, and Muscina spp do.
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Hello, Susan!

Susan R Walter wrote:
What about Muscina for your 3rd image?


That was my first guess, too. But when looking at the gallery, I found that this genus has a rather Calliphoridae-like bend in its wing venation: http://www.dipter...oto_id=916 which I can't see on my specimen.
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Jurgen

I thought the M vein wasn't bent enough too, but then I saw Jan's new picture of Muscina stabulans in the gallery and wondered...maybe they vary a bit or maybe the angle of the shot is important in how you see the vein.
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Hello, Susan!

Susan R Walter wrote:
I thought the M vein wasn't bent enough too, but then I saw Jan's new picture of Muscina stabulans in the gallery and wondered...maybe they vary a bit or maybe the angle of the shot is important in how you see the vein.


Ah, thanks! I did not see the newer pics, yet, only had a look at the M. prolapsa photos. The vein in stabulans seems to be much less bent than in prolapsa, but still more than in my specimen. Unfortunately I don't know the other two Muscina species here in Germany (levida and pascuorum, according to "Entomofauna germanica").
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Jurgen

See my thread from a while ago re Muscina levida - it shows a clearly bent M vein (not helping my theory, but never mindWink). I'll get it into the gallery when I have a moment. http://www.dipter...#post_5426 See also Gabor's thread http://www.dipter...post_14363 - quite a gentle bend there.
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Hello, Susan!

Susan R Walter wrote:
See my thread from a while ago re Muscina levida - it shows a clearly bent M vein (not helping my theory, but never mind;)). I'll get it into the gallery when I have a moment. http://www.dipter...#post_5426 See also Gabor's thread http://www.dipter...post_14363 - quite a gentle bend there.


Thanks a lot! The one in the second thread resembles mine much more with its only slightly bent M vein.
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