Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Muscidae?

Posted by Isidro on 02-05-2007 07:43
#1

It looks very similar to Musca domestica but:

-It looks sligthly more darker
-It was in my house in the winter (January).

Can be another species? Musca autumnalis, M. vitripennis... not Musca... neither Muscidae...?

Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.

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Thanks in advance!

Posted by Kahis on 02-05-2007 08:27
#2

The colour of Musca depends on the temperature during development. So one would expect to find darker specimens during the winter. Color is not a reliable charactrer for these flies. It is a Musca, but I don't know which species.

Posted by Isidro on 02-05-2007 09:36
#3

Thanks Kahis!
In that case, is most probably that can be M. domestica. I'm stranged about the apparition of this fly in the middle of the winter, but as I look it can be normal...