Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae from Australia
#1
Hello!
Can you help me to identify these two different flies from Victoria, SE Australia?
#2
And here is the second fly!
Thanx a lot, Frederic
#3
I think it is Calliphoridae.
Nikita
Posted by
crex on 09-12-2006 12:07
#4
The wing venation on the first one doesn't quite look like Muscidae, mind you I'm a newbie dipterist. Perhaps Calliphoridae? The other one was dead I guess by the appearance of it. Not much left of the wings. The diptera experts here will guide you in the right direction ...
#5
In several Australian cites one can find this fly under name
Calliphora stygia.
Is it correct ID or not - I don't know.
Nikita
#6
I think the top one is
Calliphora augur, the Eastern Lesser Brown Blowfly - a common species found on carrion and sometimes involved in sheep strike. I think the lower one is
Calliphora stygia, the Eastern Golden Haired Blowfly, which has very similar habits.
#7
Ahhhh!
Memories of childhood - brown and golden haired blowflies similar to these were everywhere on our sheep farm in north east Victoria, no doubt the bane of my father's life. Apparently I was very fond of them as a baby - yum, crunchy
