Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Strange looking fly

Posted by Marion Friedrich on 23-05-2012 20:11
#1

Hello,
today I took some pictures, because I noticed the unusually black face of this fly. It looks like a Sarcophaga. Is it a sick fly or exists really such funny looking species?
Marion

Posted by Marion Friedrich on 23-05-2012 20:15
#2

2nd picture

Posted by tristram on 23-05-2012 21:13
#3

My guess is that is a newly emerged Sarcophaga in which the ptilinium is still everted. See here: http://en.wikiped...i/Ptilinum

Posted by Sundew on 24-05-2012 10:45
#4

I saw a similar case (http://www.dipter...ost_180730) and got the same answer :D.

Posted by Marion Friedrich on 24-05-2012 15:02
#5

Thank you for answers. It is the first time that I see such a fly with the ptilinium everted. Maybe it is here a permanent condition, because wings do not really look fresh.
Marion