Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Sarcophagidae for ID -> cf. Ravinia pernix

Posted by exonie on 19-09-2025 20:50
#1
Botevgrad, Bulgaria. 19 Sep 2025
Can anyone identify this fly?

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Edited by exonie on 20-09-2025 14:45

Posted by eklans on 20-09-2025 11:01
#2
I think it could be a male Ravinia pernix:
- no apical scutellar bristles
- the row of inclinate frontals straight
- 3 dc postsutural
- hypopygium orange, large and protruding
based on Mike Hackston's key (2020)

Posted by exonie on 20-09-2025 14:43
#3
Thanks a lot Eric :-)