Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Early fly
Posted by Eric Steckx on 15-03-2006 22:24
#1
Hi,
Monday was the first sunny day in Belgium.
I didn't expect to meet flies.
This one was taking sun on a stone turned to the south, but I could take only one picture before it flies away.
Muscidae ?
Thank for your help
Posted by Kahis on 16-03-2006 11:24
#2
Aha, definitely Muscidae. I'd say
Phaonia even if the traditional characters separating this genus from the nearby
Helina are not visible. The latter is usually somewhat less robust - and I don't recall seeing
Helina very early in the spring,
Phaonia has some spring species.
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 16-03-2006 15:03
#3
I thought about same answer, but than decided to wait.
Comparing with:
http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=1302#post_5143
which is as a matter of fact Ph. subventum (= old Ph. variegata) I have a question. Is two colour (grey-yellow) scutellum and yellow cloud impression of basical part of wings diagnostic characters?
Thank you, Nikita
Posted by Eric Steckx on 16-03-2006 22:49
#4
Thanks to you Kahis and Nikita,
I don't own specific documentation about Muscidae but the picture of Phaonia errans in this site
http://aramel.fre...5-41.shtml
shows a two colours scutellum, the yellow impression of the wings and moreover the well defined and brillant yellow stripes on the abdomen. However I don't know how it is specific.