Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown calyptrata: Macquartia tessellum (ID by T. Zeegers)

Posted by Isidro on 11-05-2009 12:31
#1

This fly appeared this weekend at Calamocha, Teruel, NE Spain. Size as Musca domestica or very slightly bigger. In the own village, between rural environment and cultivation fields.

Could it be identified?

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Thanks
Isidro

Edited by Isidro on 11-05-2009 17:27

Posted by Rui Andrade on 11-05-2009 12:46
#2

Tachinidae. It looks like Meigenia.

Posted by neprisikiski on 11-05-2009 13:48
#3

Not Meigenia, this one at least have much narrower frons

Posted by Isidro on 11-05-2009 15:53
#4

Thanks Rui and Erikas. I will put Tachinidae in the title for attract Theo.

Posted by Zeegers on 11-05-2009 16:34
#5

I'd say Macquartia tessellum.


Theo

Posted by Isidro on 11-05-2009 17:25
#6

Thanks a lot Theo!