Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Another blue Calliphorid
#1
Hello!
Many metallic green and blue Muscids and Calliphorids in all sizes flying at the moment
. This one was bluer and slightly bigger than the many
Lucilias. At a blackberry hedge (Ostwestfalen/Germany). Any idea? Thanks in advance!
Posted by
Zeegers on 26-07-2007 20:34
#3
Still, a Lucilia.
Maybe a less common species, like silvatica or bufonivera ?
Theo Zeegers
#4
Hello, Theo!
Zeegers wrote:
Still, a Lucilia.
Maybe a less common species, like silvatica or bufonivera ?
Thanks a lot! Interesting...
Posted by
Zeegers on 27-07-2007 10:11
#5
HI Juergen,
Please note the 'maybe', I'm really not an expert in Calliphoridae.
Theo
#6
Hello, Theo!
Zeegers wrote:
Please note the 'maybe', I'm really not an expert in Calliphoridae.
Yes, I noted it and will save the pics with 'sp.' or 'cf.'. But it helped me already to know that they are
Lucilia and not some other Calliphorid.
#7
It can't be silvarum, because the photo shows only 2 post sutural acrostical bristles - which is
not to say that it
is bufonivora, but it could be
As for the species Theo mentioned, they must be extremely rare - they don't get listed on Fauna Europaea
(Just teasing Theo - what is rare is me getting the chance to add to the discussion after you have entered it
)
#8
Hello, Susan!
Susan R Walter wrote:
It can't be silvarum, because the photo shows only 2 post sutural acrostical bristles - which is
not to say that it
is bufonivora, but it could be
Thanks! At least there are many toads (
Bufo bufo) here this year - possible hosts for
bufonivora. But I have never seen a parasited one...
Posted by
Zeegers on 30-07-2007 07:46
#9
Touche
silvatica, silvarum, silvicola, and let's not forget
sylvarum, sylvatica....
I'm getting old and my memory is not flawless, at least not for groups I'm not working on.
And agreed, I was too lazy to look it up, Susan.
Fortunately you're not that lazy
Theo
#10
Theo - unfailingly gallant
and such an asset to this forum