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| ulf |
Posted on 09-08-2010 22:19
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Member Location: Paraguay Posts: 19 Joined: 01.03.10 |
hi all, we have some new Diptera photos in http://www.pybio.... and in http://www.pybio.... can anybody help with ID, at least to family? thanks ulf Edited by ChrisR on 09-08-2010 22:33 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 10-08-2010 00:02
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
12 - Calliphoridae .- Chrysomya sp. 10 and 11 - Sarcophagidae 7,8 and 9 - Tachinidae 4,5 and 6 - all Calliphoridae - Chrysomya spp. 1 - a crazy Syrphidae 2 - seems an Ulidiidae... |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 10-08-2010 09:19
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
This one is a calliphorid of the sub-family Mesembrinellinae (I would need a specimen to get to genus): I only know them because they have a subscutellum, rather like a tachinid's, and they confused me for a while - until I tried them in the MCAD volume 1 family keys 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 10-08-2010 09:28
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Hmm, where is the link for the numbered photos? I just see the normal ones, listed by family.
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 10-08-2010 09:31
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Well, Peter has migrated the photos into the families sets.  |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 10-08-2010 09:34
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I am not convinced that these are calliphorids, I think they could equally be tachinids:   Genera such as Leschenaultia look similar to this fly but this is absolutely NOT an identification (best I would say is "possibly Leschenaultia" ) - there are too many unknowns and I'd need specimens. Even with specimens it would be very hard with lots of uncertainty ... but if you have specimens then I will try them sometime in the next few years, as I learn more
Edited by ChrisR on 10-08-2010 09:43 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 10-08-2010 09:36
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
hmm.. maybe. But I don't see any strong subscutellum, but specially the bristles are very weak. Maybe a interrogation point for this specimen... Edited by jorgemotalmeida on 10-08-2010 09:37 |
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| Thomas Pape |
Posted on 18-08-2010 17:09
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Member Location: Natural History Museum of Denmark Posts: 110 Joined: 29.08.05 |
Not calliphorids and indeed tachinids. As for Mesembrinellinae, I prefer to lump all species in the genus Mesembrinella. The group is quite distinctive and rather homogenous, and I see no reason to treat the various subgroups (still not well defined) as valid genera. |
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| Thomas Pape |
Posted on 18-08-2010 17:10
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Member Location: Natural History Museum of Denmark Posts: 110 Joined: 29.08.05 |
The three photos of Sarcophagidae are all females of the genus Oxysarcodexia. |
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