Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sarcophaga carnaria?

Posted by Marcello on 18-07-2012 20:36
#1

Hello,

can you help me please to identificate this fly :)

Maybe it's the Sarcophaga carnaria?

18.07.2012 - Padua (Italy) North Italy

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Thanks
Marcello

Edited by Marcello on 18-07-2012 21:53

Posted by Roger Thomason on 18-07-2012 20:50
#2

Sarcophagidae; Sarcophaga sp.

Posted by Marcello on 18-07-2012 21:12
#3

Thanks!

Could be it the Sarcophaga carnaria?

Roger Thomason wrote:
Sarcophagidae; Sarcophaga sp.

Posted by ChrisR on 19-07-2012 09:26
#4

Sarcophaga spp. (and most Sarcophagidae) can only be identified to species by examining the male genitalia ... this is a female so anyway it would be unidentifiable, even if you had pinned it ;)

Posted by Marcello on 19-07-2012 19:54
#5

Interesting ...

Thanks for the info :)

ChrisR wrote:
Sarcophaga spp. (and most Sarcophagidae) can only be identified to species by examining the male genitalia ... this is a female so anyway it would be unidentifiable, even if you had pinned it ;)