Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Blue metallic and only 5 mm: Muscidae?

Posted by Juergen Peters on 27-03-2007 01:34
#1
Hello!

I think we had a similar fly recently, but I can't find it anymore :-(. This tiny blue fly was visiting Potentilla sterilis blossoms yesterday at the forest edge (Ostwestfalen/Germany). It was spiny like a Tachinid, but I think the bend in vein M is not strong enough (?). So is it one of the metallic Muscids?


Two other pictures:
http://insektenin...lau_W2.jpg
http://insektenin...lau_W3.jpg
Edited by Juergen Peters on 27-03-2007 01:34

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 27-03-2007 10:16
#2
It is Calliphoridae, may be Melinda.
Nikita

Posted by Zeegers on 27-03-2007 17:37
#3
That was my thought as well.

Theo

Posted by Juergen Peters on 28-03-2007 02:40
#4
Hello, Nikita and Theo!

Nikita Vikhrev wrote:
It is Calliphoridae, may be Melinda.


Thanks a lot! For the same reason as for Tachinidae I also had ruled out Calliphoridae...