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Piophilidae? Switzerland
Jiri Hodecek
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Posted on 29-11-2021 09:45
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Locality: Bern, Switzerland, near dead pig (experiment). Thanks for any closer ID.
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Another Piophilidae? Same place...
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Now it is clearly a piophilid.
 
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Those are two different specimens, but I suppose they are both the same species. Thanks!
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One more specimen. Also the same?
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And another one.. Sorry for the pic quality!
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Not the same species (legs unicolorously black) and probably not the same family.
Perhaps Fannia
 
Jiri Hodecek
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Yes, the last pic is probably something else. But the first three pics I shared here are all Piophilidae, correct?
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Yes.
 
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