Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Australian Muscidae - M ventrosa
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 06-04-2014 21:33
#1
Can anyone suggest a genera?
Netted. Townsville, Queensland.
Edited by Graeme Cocks on 09-04-2014 23:28
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 06-04-2014 21:33
#2
lateral view
Posted by Zeegers on 07-04-2014 17:34
#3
Graeme,
you are sure it is not a Muscid ? Did you check the presence of hypopleural / meral bristles ?
Theo
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 07-04-2014 21:16
#4
Musca ventrosa ?
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 07-04-2014 21:33
#5
Thanks Stephane. No I didn't look for those bristles. I thought plumose antennae and M1 bent forward was enough? I'll have a look.
Posted by John Carr on 07-04-2014 22:03
#6
Many Muscini have M bent forward. Usually this is more gradual than Oestroidea (cf.
Eudasyphora) but wings of
Musca and
Neomyia are easily confused with Oestroidea and the latter is shiny green like
Lucilia. Most of the time these two genera of Muscidae have 2+4 dorsocentrals and 0-1+1 acrostichals. Neither condition is common in similar Oestroidea.
Neomyia cornicina has 2+3 dc, but the condition of the acrostichals works in North America where no Calliphoridae have only one pair of postsutural acrostichals. Elsewhere in the world a few do.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 07-04-2014 23:36
#7
Thanks John.
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 08-04-2014 00:14
#8
Hypopleuron is bare.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 09-04-2014 15:18
#9
Musca ventrosa ?
Yes, of course, Musca ventrosa is very common, also in QLD
Posted by Graeme Cocks on 09-04-2014 21:01
#10
Thanks for the verification Nikita. I couldn't find a picture at all on the Web.