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Calliphoridae? (16.03.22) --> Melinda sp. (f)
Juergen Peters
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Hello,

I am sorry to bother you again with such bad pictures Frown. This 10 mm fly rested on a stone at the forestborder this afternoon (northwest Germany). Seems too slender and thorax too blue for Calliphora. Could it be a female Protophormia terraenovae?
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Melinda, one of the two, a female.


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Hello Theo,

Zeegers wrote:
Melinda, one of the two, a female.


ah, thanks! Did not expect them so early (and so big).
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10 mm is OK and they are present first thing in spring … but spring of course shifts earlier and earlier …

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Hello Theo,

Zeegers wrote:they are present first thing in spring … but spring of course shifts earlier and earlier …


I normally see Melinda first on sloe and later on hawthorn blossoms, and the sloe buds are only of pinhead size here these days...
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