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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Mission impossible?

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 17-09-2006 15:51

Unfortunately I got only one chance to photograph this fly (yesterday, at Leerdam, Netherlands). Just a side view, so I guess it will be a mission impossible to identify it. But who knows. Could it be a member of the Muscidae family, perhaps?

Thanks in advance!

Posted by Zeegers on 17-09-2006 19:29

Looks like a Muscina ?
Tony may confirm

Theo

Posted by Tony Irwin on 17-09-2006 21:55

I think it must be, though the angle of this shot makes it difficult to see the bend in vein M very well. It look s very similar to the fly in http://www.dipter...post_13937 which Kahis suggested was Muscina stabulans, and I don't think it can be anything else.

Edited by Tony Irwin on 17-09-2006 21:57

Posted by Jan Zwaaneveld on 18-09-2006 10:40

Thanks very much for your help, Theo and Tony, this is more than I could hope for!