Thread subject: Diptera.info :: again a muscid -> Anthomyiidae
Posted by Michael Becker on 07-07-2008 19:56
#1
Hello,
what fly is this? I found it last month in a forest in western germany.
Thanks,
Michael
Edited by Michael Becker on 09-07-2008 05:29
Posted by javanerkelens on 07-07-2008 20:12
#2
Looks to me as a Anthomyiidae.
Greatings Joke
Posted by Michael Becker on 08-07-2008 18:55
#3
Hello,
I'm not convinced. I just scanned through the Anthomyiidae and Muscidae galleries again. Well, for me it looks now exactly as the Helina sp. in Muscidae. Could this be?
Michael
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 08-07-2008 19:30
#4
Joke is right, it is an Anthomyiidae.
Posted by Michael Becker on 08-07-2008 20:54
#5
Hello!
Sorry for my scepticism. I always get these two families wrong.
In the Anthomyiidae gallery I can't find anything, that seems similar to me, so I am afraid, I have to label the pictures as "unknown Anthomyiidae".
Thanks both of you,
Michael
Posted by crex on 08-07-2008 21:27
#6
If you change the title of the thread maybe Ackland can find a genus for you ...
Posted by Michael Becker on 09-07-2008 05:30
#7
crex wrote:
If you change the title of the thread maybe Ackland can find a genus for you ...
I try it.
Posted by Michael Ackland on 09-07-2008 10:06
#8
It is an anthomyiid, but I am sorry I can''t suggest a genus. To do this I would need to know some details such as 1. Is the ventral surface of costal vein setulose? 2. Arista hairing? 3. prealar seta length?
There don''t seem to be any cruciate interfrontal setae? This might suggest a Pegomya female, but then I would need to know about the penultimate sternites of the abdomen. Is the arista plumose?
Re attempting to name anthomyiids (especially females) from photos- that way madness lies!!
Posted by Michael Becker on 09-07-2008 20:12
#9
Ok,
thank you again to all of you. I know that Anthomyiidae are very difficult or in most cases impossible to determine from fotos. I always hope, that I got a specimen from the few determinable percents.
Michael