Posted by
runetk on 13-11-2021 14:40
#1
Is it possible to ID this?
Location: North-Norway - Harstad
Habitat: Near the sea. In grasland/edge of birchforrest.
Size: 8.5mm - Date: 24.05.2020 - collected.
Edited by
runetk on 14-11-2021 12:36
Posted by
eklans on 13-11-2021 15:55
#8
Hi, it looks more like a Melinda to me: black palps, metallic blue, white calypters, frons smaller than one eye: M. cf. viridicyanea.
Posted by
runetk on 01-01-2022 13:20
#10
I have tried to key this with: Test key Steven Falk 2016
And think it is clearly a M. viridicyanea
ref: https://www.diptera-in-beeld.nl/key%20(draft)%20to%20British%20Blowflies%20Steven%20Falk%20132016.pdf
Norwegian species:
Melinda gentilis
Melinda viridicyanea
Keying (excluding M.gentilis):
absent Presutural intra-alar bristles (check picture)
Palp black, abdomen longer than the with.
result: Melinda viridicyanea
Edited by
runetk on 01-01-2022 13:21
