Thread subject: Diptera.info :: bubbling above antenae ?

Posted by BubikolRamios on 01-05-2013 11:05
#1

This is right out of cocoon and is to become (in an hour or so)green metalic fly, something like muscini or lucilia, have to cool it down to get a shoot.

The buble is definitely from above antenae I seen it coming out.

Edited by BubikolRamios on 01-05-2013 11:06

Posted by John Carr on 01-05-2013 13:24
#2

That nearly vertical row of bristles above and in front of the hind leg should put it in superfamily Oestroidea.

Posted by Gunnar M Kvifte on 01-05-2013 14:31
#3

The "bubble" is an organ called the ptilinium, which is used to crack open the pupal skin in the Cyclorrapha. It is only visible in newly hatched specimens; although traces of it remain evident as a horse-shoe-shaped scar above the antennae.

Posted by BubikolRamios on 01-05-2013 20:09
#4

There, can this be determined to species exact ?
pupa images: http://www.dipter...d_id=54198

Edited by BubikolRamios on 01-05-2013 20:10