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Muscidae or Calliphoridae?
Juergen Peters
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Posted on 27-02-2008 17:34
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Hello!

Unfortunately I could take only this photograph, before this fly flew away (today at banana bait in our garden, northwest Germany), and the wing venation is not visible very well. Size of a normal house fly, I first thought of one of the many Muscina levida there. But it has a bluish shine on the thorax and lacks the orange tip at the scutellum. So what could it be? A rather small Calliphora? Or possibly some other Calliphorid?
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Does not look like Calliphora ( the genus) to me, but difficult to see.
The bend in vein M seems broadly rounded, which, indeed, would suggest Muscidae.
Could be something like Phormia regina, though.


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Looks like Muscina without red tipped scutellum indeed...
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Hello!

Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Looks like Muscina without red tipped scutellum indeed...


Sorry, I overlooked Theo's reply from february. So it was good, that there were new answers! Smile Thanks to all!
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