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Photographed in my garden again in Mossbank Shetland Isles. Any ID possible from these snaps?

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Pic 2...Think it's same species?

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Hopefully same species?

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Calliphora vicina

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Thanks Andy...See you've managed to escape from under your pile of unidentified flies ;). at least for a little while.
Regards Roger

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your welcome,

its a nice destraction from the big pile that im working through at the moment

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I'm not convinced it is vicina. Could be something more interesting. The basicosta, tegula etc are dark, as is the anterior spiracle (should be more or less brown and orange for vicina). Roger's location means that it is not unlikely that he gets some of the cold loving upland species.

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I had my doubts as well.
No final opinion here

Theo

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Thanks Susan and Theo.. I was hoping it might be something different, but Andy's interest is in carrion visiting flies....Has he been under that pile of un-ID'd flies for too long?

On the subject of cold places;
Surely in for a cold winter judging by the blizzard of flies coming out of Russia lately ;).

Thanks for the rendered help

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The Orange on the Jowls tends to be indicative of C.vicina (Byrd and Castner 2001, among others). Fauna europaea shows that it has a northern distribution up to and including Northern russian,
I could be wrong, but id still call it C.vicina

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The trouble is, however, we see very little orange on the jowls (as in 'gena').
We never argued that vicina could not occur on the Shetlands, but we have our doubts about this one.


Theo