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Lucilia-like, but...
Cor Zonneveld
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Posted on 31-03-2009 16:24
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Today (31 March), Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Birch tree-trunk at edge of playing field.

Superficially it looks like Lucilia, but eye color to dull, and M1 bends differently. So it must be something different, but what?
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possibly different specimen (more coppery-colored thorax)
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Well spotted. Not Lucilia, but something in Muscidae (Neomyia ?) Theo
 
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It's a muscid - Eudasyphora, I think.
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Thanks both!
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It's a muscid - Eudasyphora, I think.
Tony

So think I, probably E. cyanicolor
Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University
 
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Thanks Nikita!

(What's in a name? cyani indicates blues but I saw green...other topic: autumnalis does not exactly indicate March!Wink)
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