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Posted by David020 on 31-08-2008 10:06

hello dear Dipterists,
This fly, a few days ago on texel on cossus-infested tree. Suggested by Joke this may be Polietes. If anyone knows ID, I'd appreciate a lot,
thnx and best wishes David

Posted by David020 on 31-08-2008 10:07

2nd try

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 31-08-2008 12:14

I think you can trust Joke's ID
Nikita

Posted by David020 on 31-08-2008 17:21

thanx Nikita! best wishes, David

Posted by Xespok on 01-09-2008 16:58

I would have rather said that this is around female Phaonia, Muscidae.

Posted by javanerkelens on 01-09-2008 19:02

Hello,

At first I thought also it could by a Phaonia, but David added another photo in the dutch forum for fly's, and then you can see clearly 3+3 acrostichals......and that's, for so far as I know, characteristic for Polietes.

And I have to look, if there is a Phaonia whit also 3+3 acrostichals, and whit the same colour of this fly?.
(the only one, whit a "general look" I can think of is Phaonia trimaculata, but I don't see there the characteristic spots on the scutellum)
But I'm not an expert, so I could be wrong.....:D

Greatings Joke

Posted by David020 on 14-09-2008 09:36

dear Dipterists,
sorry for the delay, but I now have a somewhat better photo of this fly. anyone? thnx! David

Posted by David020 on 14-09-2008 09:39

now with photo

Posted by David020 on 14-09-2008 09:41

now, with photo.