Thread subject: Diptera.info :: muscidae

Posted by nigel pinhorn on 02-04-2011 20:31
#1

i have been advised to resend this image with a new subject title - Helina evecta has been suggested - could anyone confirm please
nigel pinhorn
exeter, devon

Posted by neprisikiski on 02-04-2011 21:33
#2

It look likes Phaonia errans, or some other Phaonia, but not Helina evecta (reddish legs!)

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 02-04-2011 21:37
#3

Yes, see my answer at the original thread : I agree with you Erikas.

Posted by neprisikiski on 02-04-2011 21:42
#4

Well, we posted at the same time :)

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 02-04-2011 21:48
#5

Indeed ! :D
As we are both thinking about the same species, it as really a good chance to be Phaonia errans !;)

Posted by nigel pinhorn on 02-04-2011 23:11
#6

thank you erikas and stephane - looking through the muscidae photo gallery is daunting - is there an atlas of the muscidae of britain or a 'twenty most common spring species' to help a beginner get started?

i shall post one more picture tonight that I took today with quite pronounced triangles (do these have a technical name) on the abdomen

thanks ever so much for your replies - keen to learn and may make it a project for the year as I am doing a mini-survey of this particularly large city cemetary

nigel pinhorn, exeter, devon