Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Stomoxys (was: Tachnid fly?)
Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 15-01-2009 19:39
#1
Hi
Can anybody please ID? It was smaller than a housefly, around 6-7mm long. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Edited by ChrisR on 16-01-2009 13:19
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 15-01-2009 19:49
#2
No, Muscidae, genus
Stomoxys, species level impossible by this photo
Nikita
Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 15-01-2009 20:10
#3
Thanks for the quick reply.
Below are 2 more pictures. I hope they help
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 15-01-2009 20:42
#4
Regarding very wide frons and abdominal patterns it is cosmopolitan
S. cf. calcitrans
Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 16-01-2009 04:56
#5
thanks