Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Small Calliphoridae?
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| lagura |
Posted on 28-01-2009 20:12
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 Member Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posts: 1241 Joined: 24.10.08 |
If this really is a Calliphoridae it must be the smallest one I have ever seen (I mistook it for a Lonchaeidae, same shiny blue colour). Can it be ID'd? Size: ~4mm Date: 8 September 2008 Location: On Tanacetum vulgare on a small rather dry meadow (Helsingborg, Sweden) Thank you! lagura attached the following image:  [122.53Kb] Edited by lagura on 28-01-2009 20:14  |
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| lagura |
Posted on 28-01-2009 20:13
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Member Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posts: 1241 Joined: 24.10.08 |
Another view
lagura attached the following image:  [117.04Kb] |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 29-01-2009 14:33
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
4mm is quite small, but the bend in M is very Calliphorid-like, so I think this is probably Melinda sp.
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| lagura |
Posted on 29-01-2009 15:44
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Member Location: Helsingborg, Sweden Posts: 1241 Joined: 24.10.08 |
Thanks Susan. It could have been 5mm but not more seeing there is plenty of room left on that T. vulgare flower. The thought of a Calliphorid neer occured to me at the time as the fly was so deep shiny blue all over.
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