Posted by lagura on 28-01-2009 20:12
#1
If this really is a Calliphoridae it must be the smallest one I have ever seen (I mistook it for a Lonchaeidae, same shiny blue colour).
Can it be ID'd?
Size: ~4mm
Date: 8 September 2008
Location: On Tanacetum vulgare on a small rather dry meadow (Helsingborg, Sweden)
Thank you!
Edited by lagura on 28-01-2009 20:14
Posted by Susan R Walter on 29-01-2009 14:33
#3
4mm is quite small, but the bend in M is very Calliphorid-like, so I think this is probably
Melinda sp.
Posted by lagura on 29-01-2009 15:44
#4
Thanks Susan. It could have been 5mm but not more seeing there is plenty of room left on that T. vulgare flower. The thought of a Calliphorid neer occured to me at the time as the fly was so deep shiny blue all over.