Thread subject: Diptera.info :: did I found melinda?
Posted by uwe on 28-09-2009 19:21
#1
hello people I think it must be something close to Melinda, is that right and is ID possible?
found close to the north sea
thanks
Uwe
Edited by uwe on 28-09-2009 19:26
Posted by uwe on 28-09-2009 19:24
#2
foto2
size I guess half size musca domestica
Edited by uwe on 28-09-2009 19:27
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 28-09-2009 19:31
#3
Actually you found a female
Musca autumnalis.;)
Melinda are nice metallic blue Calliphoridae.
Posted by Gordon on 28-09-2009 19:35
#4
Ahhhhhhhhhh So M. autumnalis has only a little yellow and M. domestica has a lot.:| Go on tell me the truth;)
Posted by uwe on 28-09-2009 19:51
#5
thanks, musca I see 7mm that are ok but I can see yellow just in wingbases not on abdomen thats suspicious or not?
B)
Uwe
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 28-09-2009 20:12
#6
Females
Musca domestica and
M. autumnalis have more greyish and darker abdomen than corresponding males.
The two species can be distinguished by they frons/frontal vitta width. See the work made by Joke
here.
In males of
Musca domestica, the eyes are more distant than in
M. autumnalis.
In females of
Musca domestica, the frontal vitta is very wide, well more than in
M. autumnalis.
Posted by uwe on 28-09-2009 20:20
#7
thanks a lot, Stephane,
best regards
Uwe
Posted by Gordon on 29-09-2009 09:30
#8
I second that thanks:)
Posted by lagura on 29-09-2009 19:32
#9
And I third it :)