Diptera.info :: Identification queries :: Diptera (adults)
 Sturmia bella?
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| human fly |
Posted on 06-07-2011 21:41
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Member Location: Zagreb, Croatia Posts: 14 Joined: 04.07.11 |
I have found this beauty recently. Very rare, only one of a kind, browsing flowers with bunch of hover flies buzzing around. The closest match is Sturmia bella, but I'm not sure... It is huge, twice as large as house fly, with extraordinary huge head. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 06-07-2011 21:47
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
No, not Sturmia - more like Spallanzania, I think - do you have more angles? It can't be Sturmia because the head is so very different - like a Gonia, but not quite 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Sundew |
Posted on 06-07-2011 22:44
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 Member Location: Berlin and Baden-Württemberg, Germany Posts: 3939 Joined: 28.07.07 |
It bears quite a resemblance to mine (http://www.dipter...ost_174442)  . |
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| human fly |
Posted on 06-07-2011 22:51
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Member Location: Zagreb, Croatia Posts: 14 Joined: 04.07.11 |
I have a few different angles, but very similar to this one, this is the best shot. I didn't picture it from behind, or from above, it escaped. I have checked Spallanzania, but it has yellowish stripes on the body, my fly is grey. The head is very similar. It's still hard to conclude. |
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| human fly |
Posted on 06-07-2011 22:56
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Member Location: Zagreb, Croatia Posts: 14 Joined: 04.07.11 |
Yes, Sundew, it looks alike very much.
Edited by human fly on 06-07-2011 22:57 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-07-2011 00:20
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Post a few more photos (dorsal & lateral) and we'll see
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| human fly |
Posted on 07-07-2011 14:41
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Member Location: Zagreb, Croatia Posts: 14 Joined: 04.07.11 |
Well, the best I have is this semi-dorsal view. A little bit better view of the wings, I guess. Lateral view was tricky to take, I don't have it. But I will go back to the area this weekend. It must show itself again. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-07-2011 15:04
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, to me it looks like Spallanzania but it is a genus that I have never caught myself so I am unfamiliar with it, generally speaking
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| human fly |
Posted on 07-07-2011 15:20
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Member Location: Zagreb, Croatia Posts: 14 Joined: 04.07.11 |
You are right, Chris, it really looks like Spallanzania. But still a little bit different body colors. I have to find more of them. |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-07-2011 15:36
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, get them in a net, send them to me and I will give you a proper identification to species
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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