Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Lucilia sp. or Neomyia sp ???
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| valter |
Posted on 18-05-2009 18:50
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Location: Algarve, Portugal Date: May 2009  Thanks, Valter Edited by valter on 23-05-2009 12:32 |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 18-05-2009 19:46
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I'm fairly sure this is a Lucilia. Its tattered wings and copper colour indicate that it is an old individual. All green metallic flies change colour as they become old, usually to bronze then copper.
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 21-05-2009 19:55
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Valter - I'm not certain which calliphorid this is - it may not be Lucilia - but I was wondering what characters you are using to decide that it is Melinda?
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| valter |
Posted on 21-05-2009 21:45
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It has too little green colour, almost bluish, perhaps a Melinda... |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 21-05-2009 22:24
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You may be right, though the tip of the abdomen looks rather green to me. I suppose that could just be reflection from the leaf... but the blue on the thorax might be relection of the sky !!! 
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| valter |
Posted on 21-05-2009 22:28
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Member Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 1998 Joined: 09.07.07 |
Tony Irwin wrote: but the blue on the thorax might be relection of the sky !!! The sky was grey at that time! |
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| Rui Andrade |
Posted on 21-05-2009 22:40
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Lol . I think that the thorax is a little bit grey . |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 22-05-2009 10:48
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It is too short for a Melinda, in my opinion. Are we sure it is a Calliphoridae ? Might be Neomyia or some other of these Muscids ? Theo |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 23-05-2009 06:26
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I'm not certain - I just felt that the abdominal bristles were more like Lucilia than a muscid. AFAIK the same change in colour applies, whether a muscid, calliphorid or tachinid.
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 23-05-2009 12:08
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I think there is more than one postsutural acrostichal pair, so not a green muscid. Lucilia sp. to me. Stephane. |
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