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 Calliphoridae ID (Mauritius)
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| ESant |
Posted on 09-07-2024 13:14
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Member Location: L'Aquila, Italy Posts: 2080 Joined: 20.09.20 |
Hello, I photographed this fly in Balaclava, Mauritius, on April 21st 2024. I think it is a Lucilia, but is it possible to say something about its species from these photos? Thank you in advance, Emanuele ESant attached the following image:  [300.7Kb] Edited by ESant on 09-07-2024 22:42 |
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| ESant |
Posted on 09-07-2024 13:14
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Member Location: L'Aquila, Italy Posts: 2080 Joined: 20.09.20 |
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ESant attached the following image:  [291.83Kb] |
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| ESant |
Posted on 09-07-2024 13:14
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Member Location: L'Aquila, Italy Posts: 2080 Joined: 20.09.20 |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 09-07-2024 17:07
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 Member Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 10175 Joined: 22.10.10 |
If it has only two pairs of postsutural acrostichals it is not either of the common synanthropic species Lucilia sericata and L. cuprina. It might be a different genus. |
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| ESant |
Posted on 09-07-2024 22:41
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Member Location: L'Aquila, Italy Posts: 2080 Joined: 20.09.20 |
Thank you John! If not Lucilia, I wonder if it may be a Hemipyrellia instead. What do you think? |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 09-07-2024 23:14
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Member Location: Massachusetts, USA Posts: 10175 Joined: 22.10.10 |
ESant wrote: Thank you John! If not Lucilia, I wonder if it may be a Hemipyrellia instead. What do you think? I thought about Hemipyrellia. I do not know the genus well enough to judge. Lucilia is very common where I live. We do not have Hemipyrellia at all in the continental USA. |
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