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Muscidae - Polietes meridionalis
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 I think it is a tachinid.

I found it today, 24nd February, in Palam?s, Girona, coastal NE Spain in a holm-oak, cork-oak and Aleppo pine forest.

Can anyone, please, help me with the identification?

Miquel
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 No, this a female Polietes (meridionalis ?), Muscidae.
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 Why '?' ? Polietes meridionalis
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 From the yellow prothoracal spiracle you can conclude: it is really P. meridionalis, already known from Spain and Portugal.
 
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