Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae?<Phaonia errans (M) ID'd by Stephane Lebrun

Posted by Roger Thomason on 12-06-2009 08:38
#1

Found this one yesterday while dragging myself round the garden...Anyone ID it?

Edited by Roger Thomason on 13-06-2009 10:40

Posted by Roger Thomason on 12-06-2009 08:39
#2

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Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 12-06-2009 15:59
#3

Male Muscina stabulans.

Posted by Roger Thomason on 12-06-2009 23:00
#4

Thanks once again Stephane...a new one for me...and also new for Shetland :). That's two new species for up here in one day.
Regards Roger

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 13-06-2009 08:12
#5

Stop, stop ! I have been too fast with this one : the eyes are distinctly hairy, so it is not Muscina at all. It is a male Phaonia errans (if 4 post dc - difficult to see with precision), otherwise Phaonia apicalis.
Sorry.

Posted by Roger Thomason on 13-06-2009 10:39
#6

No sweat Stephane
Phaonia errans is good, I've had that one a few times, but it isn't on my checklist...so still an unrecorded species for Shetland :). Thank you once more..
Regards Roger