Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae? Uganda
Posted by christoophe on 13-05-2026 12:16
#1
Collected in Uganda (Kibwera), on a plateau at an altitude of 1,530 m.
Posted by christoophe on 13-05-2026 12:17
#2
above
Posted by christoophe on 13-05-2026 12:17
#3
head
Posted by John Carr on 13-05-2026 16:24
#4
Tachinidae. Consult Crosskey (1984) ("Annotated keys to the genera of Tachinidae (Diptera) found in tropical and southern Africa") and then more recent publications to find out what the old genera are called now.
A modern key was supposed to be published a few years ago. Maybe someday...
Posted by christoophe on 13-05-2026 16:36
#5
There is no subscutellum. The wing venation suggests it belongs to the Muscini, if it is indeed in the Muscidae family.
Posted by John Carr on 13-05-2026 16:39
#6
christoophe wrote:
There is no subscutellum. The wing venation suggests it belongs to the Muscini, if it is indeed in the Muscidae family.
I don't know of any Muscidae with such a sharp bend in vein M. Try Márcia S. Couri, "A key to the Afrotropica genera of Muscidae (Diptera)".
Posted by John Carr on 13-05-2026 16:53
#7
Musca aethiops Stein has the right color. I don't know whether it has Sarcophagidae-like wing veins.
Posted by John Carr on 13-05-2026 17:26
#8
But Malloch (Exotic Muscaridae XVII) says only two species of
Musca known in 1925 have such hairy eyes,
interruptella (as
interrrupta) and
dasyops.