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 Muscid fly? Polietes lardaria?
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| nick upton |
Posted on 16-03-2010 17:03
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Can anyone identify this fly with any certainty? Photographed on 5th September 2009 feeding on Ivy flowers in a Wiltshire UK garden. To a non expert like me there are a lot of flies around that look at first glance a bit like the common flesh fly Sarcophaga carnaria, but I'm starting to tune into differences better and i think the wing veins are all wrong here and this was a bit less "big and bristly" than a flesh fly. NickU - Generalist naturalist and photographer. nick upton attached the following image:  [117.1Kb] |
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| Stephane Lebrun |
Posted on 16-03-2010 21:32
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 Member Location: Le Havre, France Posts: 8248 Joined: 03.03.07 |
Not with certainty, but I'd say you're right with P. lardarius.
Stephane. |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 16-03-2010 21:58
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Thanks again, Stephane. Good to know I may be starting to recognise some flies to species level OK. Nick |
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| Jan HC Velterop |
Posted on 04-06-2010 17:56
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Member Location: Enschede NL 7544 ZE 106 Posts: 56 Joined: 08.03.06 |
It's certainly Polietes lardaria: the front spiracle is very darkhaired. In Polietes meridionalis the spiracle is clear yellow. In the field you can even observe different eye colour if both species are present, which can be helpful to detect whether both are present on that locality. Jan HC |
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| nick upton |
Posted on 06-06-2010 21:23
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Member Location: Wiltshire, UK Posts: 828 Joined: 12.03.10 |
Hi Jan, many thanks for the confirmation and extra detail. N Nick Upton - naturalist and photographer |
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