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Hello!

I think this beautiful fly is a male Scatophaga stercoraria, am I right? It is a little bit greener than usual (as normally the females only). They were numerous on foul apples on a meadow with trees yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany).

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If it has black antennae then I think it has to be S stercoraria doesn't it? I've certainly seen them this beautiful green colour before, anyway.

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Hello, Susan!



I know, that the black colour of the antennae is a difference between S. stercoraria and the other frequent Scatophaga species I know (suilla, lutaria). But is it the only Scatophaga with dark antennae?

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Jurgen

I think S stercoraria is the only Scatophaga with dark antennae, but I am not absolutely certain. It might just be the only one in the UK, not for all Europe.

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Hello, Susan!



Thanks! According to the "Entomofauna germanica" we have these Scatophaga species here in Germany:
- cineraria
- furcata
- inquinata
- litorea
- lutaria
- obscura
- pictipennis
- scybalaria
- stercoraria
- suilla