Thread subject: Diptera.info :: van Emden's Lucilia key

Posted by bioimages on 15-08-2011 11:47
#1
In van Emden's RES Muscidae Handbook, the Lucilia key, couplet 5(8), refers to blackish setulae on the subcostal sclerite. The only such hairs I can see on my specimens are on the underside (am looking at the extreme base of the subcosta). Is that what’s meant? Or should I be using a more uptodate key?

Many thanks
Malcolm

Posted by Paul Beuk on 15-08-2011 13:03
#2
I'd opt for Rognes' key in Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica...

Posted by bioimages on 16-08-2011 12:56
#3
Of course! For some reason I thought I was in Muscidae Angry
Been sniffing too much ethyl acetate!
Thanks Paul.