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Mating on my chair in the garden.
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Do they belong to the Muscidae? Which species?
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Musca it is, species seems to be autumnalis


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Thanks for your help.
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The eyes of the male don't reach eachother. Isn't it more likely to be Musca domestica?
Edited by wilde on 09-02-2008 18:32
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My photo doesn't match with the photos in the gallery of M. autumnalis. Nobody willing to give further comments?
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Theo was right, it is M.autumnalis - male frons is rather wide, and female has wide parafrontalia and narrow interfrontalia.
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Thanks, but what are parafrontalia and interfrontalia? I never heard of these words.
On the internet I found out that the room between the eyes at the top of the head are the parafrontalia, but interfrontalia still are a puzzle. Please explain it to me.

Crex photo in the gallery shows a male C. autumnalis with eyes without any room between them at the top. Is its name wrong?
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Hello,
parafrontaliae are the fronto-orbital plates, which are on each side of the middle dark vitta, called frontalia.

Male Musca autumnalis has touching orbital plates or nearly so, but always narrower than in M. domestica.
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Please look at the 'glossary' section of this site, for more info Wink
 
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Musca autumnalis alright! Wink
 
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Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Hello,
parafrontaliae are the fronto-orbital plates, which are on each side of the middle dark vitta, called frontalia.

Male Musca autumnalis has touching orbital plates or nearly so, but always narrower than in M. domestica.


see also the Overviews section. There are almost everything over there. Wink
 
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Damn.. can't find those words in the Glossary... Sad
 
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Frons consist of 3 parts - central one - interfrontalia, and two parafrontalia on both sides
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