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 More Calliphoridae<C vicina..ID by Andy Chick..or maybe not...
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 02-12-2008 08:55
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 Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Photographed in my garden again in Mossbank Shetland Isles. Any ID possible from these snaps?
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 02-12-2008 08:56
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Pic 2...Think it's same species?
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 02-12-2008 08:57
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Hopefully same species?
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| Andy Chick |
Posted on 02-12-2008 09:25
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Member Location: Under a pile of unidentifed flies! Posts: 58 Joined: 30.11.07 |
Calliphora vicina |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 02-12-2008 09:31
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Thanks Andy...See you've managed to escape from under your pile of unidentified flies  . at least for a little while.Regards Roger |
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| Andy Chick |
Posted on 04-12-2008 10:27
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Member Location: Under a pile of unidentifed flies! Posts: 58 Joined: 30.11.07 |
rogerthomason wrote: Thanks Andy...See you've managed to escape from under your pile of unidentified flies . at least for a little while.Regards Roger your welcome, its a nice destraction from the big pile that im working through at the moment |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 04-12-2008 14:20
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
I'm not convinced it is vicina. Could be something more interesting. The basicosta, tegula etc are dark, as is the anterior spiracle (should be more or less brown and orange for vicina). Roger's location means that it is not unlikely that he gets some of the cold loving upland species.
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 04-12-2008 19:38
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19026 Joined: 21.07.04 |
I had my doubts as well. No final opinion here Theo |
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| Roger Thomason |
Posted on 04-12-2008 23:43
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Member Location: Mossbank,Shetland Isles. Posts: 5268 Joined: 17.07.08 |
Thanks Susan and Theo.. I was hoping it might be something different, but Andy's interest is in carrion visiting flies....Has he been under that pile of un-ID'd flies for too long? On the subject of cold places; Surely in for a cold winter judging by the blizzard of flies coming out of Russia lately .Thanks for the rendered help Edited by Roger Thomason on 05-12-2008 00:30 |
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| Andy Chick |
Posted on 07-12-2008 14:43
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Member Location: Under a pile of unidentifed flies! Posts: 58 Joined: 30.11.07 |
The Orange on the Jowls tends to be indicative of C.vicina (Byrd and Castner 2001, among others). Fauna europaea shows that it has a northern distribution up to and including Northern russian, I could be wrong, but id still call it C.vicina |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 07-12-2008 18:37
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19026 Joined: 21.07.04 |
The trouble is, however, we see very little orange on the jowls (as in 'gena'. We never argued that vicina could not occur on the Shetlands, but we have our doubts about this one. Theo |
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