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| Eric Steckx |
Posted on 15-03-2006 21:24
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Hi, Monday was the first sunny day in Belgium. I didn't expect to meet flies. This one was taking sun on a stone turned to the south, but I could take only one picture before it flies away. Muscidae ? Thank for your help 
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| Kahis |
Posted on 16-03-2006 10:24
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Aha, definitely Muscidae. I'd say Phaonia even if the traditional characters separating this genus from the nearby Helina are not visible. The latter is usually somewhat less robust - and I don't recall seeing Helina very early in the spring, Phaonia has some spring species.
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 16-03-2006 14:03
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I thought about same answer, but than decided to wait. Comparing with: http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=1302#post_5143 which is as a matter of fact Ph. subventum (= old Ph. variegata) I have a question. Is two colour (grey-yellow) scutellum and yellow cloud impression of basical part of wings diagnostic characters? Thank you, Nikita Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| Eric Steckx |
Posted on 16-03-2006 21:49
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Thanks to you Kahis and Nikita, I don't own specific documentation about Muscidae but the picture of Phaonia errans in this site http://aramel.fre...5-41.shtml shows a two colours scutellum, the yellow impression of the wings and moreover the well defined and brillant yellow stripes on the abdomen. However I don't know how it is specific. Eric Steckx |
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but don't see the image in the post.
