Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Identification
#1
Your help in identifying this would be appreciated. Probably obvious but not in my books.
#2
Hi John -
Any chance of posting an enlarged picture of this fly? - they don't have to be posted life-size!

#3
Sorry. Hopefully got it right this time.
#4
Hi John.
I think it is Muscidae.
Among Muscidae I know two possibility with all yellow-red body
Phaonia pallida
Thricops diaphanus
Could you give size, place and date?
Nikita
#5
Hi Nikita,
Thanks. Photo taken yesterday in Kent, UK. Size about the same as a housefly.
#6
Sending a larger image which will hopefully help.
#7
I'm sorry John, but I haven't enought knowledge to answer you. May be it is Phaonia pallida of Muscidae, but I can't exclude some Anthomyiidae, like Pegomyia.
May be somebody knows and will answer someday. May be nobody can give name on fly on your photo (in some cases nobody can so far, even if you have collected fly!). If so, send another photo and you'll get name.
Nikita
P.S. As a small compensation I can give you sex - your fly is female.
#8
Nikita, Thanks anyway for trying. Much appreciated. John
#9
Hi John
Thanks for posting the larger image - makes all the difference!
As Nikita suspected, it's a
Phaonia pallida female. There are other all-orange muscoids, but your photo shows enough detail of the bristles to exclude them.
#10
Tony. Thanks a lot for your help. John