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Unusual (?) Calliphora? (25.10.10)
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Posted on 28-10-2010 16:47
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Hello!

In contrast to the many 12 mm individuals this one from our couryard (northwest Germany) measured only 7-8 mm.
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Size is of little relevance, it just indicates the amount of food the larva got.
However, the basicosta does look pretty dark, which makes this a candidate Calliphora loewi.
Any other pics, no matter how bad ?
Or collected specimen ???

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Hello, Theo!

I'm afraid I only have three nearly identical pictures from the same angle. Here is a less compressed one (179 KB).
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It really does look like C. loewi, I'm pretty but not totally convinced.
Pity we don't have a lateral (head)shot.

any aberrant Calliphora in October should always be checked for loewi !!

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Hello, Theo!

Zeegers wrote:
It really does look like C. loewi, I'm pretty but not totally convinced.
Pity we don't have a lateral (head)shot.
any aberrant Calliphora in October should always be checked for loewi !!


Yesterday I saw again such a small, dark Calliphora at the same place and hoped to get some better pictures, but it was away. before I could take a single shot. Frown
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Hello, Theo!

Juergen Peters wrote:
Yesterday I saw again such a small, dark Calliphora


Today there even was one of the small, dark ones in our kitchen at the cat's food bowl. But I did not have the camera at hand. I only have some pics of two individuals in the garden. I'm afraid, again not from best angles...

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Pic #2
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Other, smaller individual.
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this is vicina


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Zeegers wrote:
this is vicina


Thanks, Theo! One I photographed in the kitchen today was also clearly vicina.
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