Posted by Luis_Ram on 14-06-2012 16:11
#1
Hello everybody, this is my first posting in this forum.
The fly on the attached pictures was found dead inside a closed cardboard box containing plastic yogurts; these box was closed in a factory in Belgium and was opened in Madrid, Spain.
A friend of mine, a Flemish entrepreneur, asked me (I am a biologist by education) whether the fly got inside the box in his Belgian factory and travelled all the way to Spain, or whether it is a Spanish fly that got in the box after it was opened in Spain.
The fly's body is 11,9 mm long. They eyes were bright red, now they are reddish-brown.
I have made about 10 photographs of it through my stereoscopic microscope.
My questions to you specialists are:
-- Can you determine up to species name? Is it Polietes lardarius? Muscina stabulans?
-- Is the species, common in both countries?
-- Is there any other way to answer my friend's question?
Luis (same name as Louis or Lodewijk)
Edited by Luis_Ram on 14-06-2012 18:15
Posted by Luis_Ram on 14-06-2012 18:05
#3
Yes, I could not place my photos! I am placing now one at each message.
Edited by Luis_Ram on 14-06-2012 18:19
Posted by Luis_Ram on 16-06-2012 12:45
#6
" I think it is Sarcophagidae?! "
Well, I cannot classify flies, not even to families. I just looked a description of the Sarcophagidae and yes, this one looks like one of them, but then also to the
Polietes lardarius that I mentioned.
Shall I give my query up?