Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Beautiful Scatophaga
Posted by Juergen Peters on 15-01-2007 11:47
#1
Hello!
I think this beautiful fly is a male
Scatophaga stercoraria, am I right? It is a little bit greener than usual (as normally the females only). They were numerous on foul apples on a meadow with trees yesterday (Ostwestfalen/Germany).
Posted by Susan R Walter on 16-01-2007 14:15
#2
If it has black antennae then I think it has to be
S stercoraria doesn't it? I've certainly seen them this beautiful green colour before, anyway.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-01-2007 22:17
#3
Hello, Susan!
Susan R Walter wrote:
If it has black antennae then I think it has to be S stercoraria doesn't it?
I know, that the black colour of the antennae is a difference between
S. stercoraria and the other frequent
Scatophaga species I know (
suilla,
lutaria). But is it the only
Scatophaga with dark antennae?
Posted by Susan R Walter on 17-01-2007 09:37
#4
Jurgen
I think
S stercoraria is the only
Scatophaga with dark antennae, but I am not absolutely certain. It might just be the only one in the UK, not for all Europe.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 17-01-2007 14:19
#5
Hello, Susan!
Susan R Walter wrote:
I think S stercoraria is the only Scatophaga with dark antennae, but I am not absolutely certain. It might just be the only one in the UK, not for all Europe.
Thanks! According to the "Entomofauna germanica" we have these
Scatophaga species here in Germany:
-
cineraria
-
furcata
-
inquinata
-
litorea
-
lutaria
-
obscura
-
pictipennis
-
scybalaria
-
stercoraria
-
suilla