Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Purple fly - Norway

Posted by Leif G on 01-08-2015 15:21
#1

From Southern Norway, July 22.
Small size, smaller than Phasia hemiptera that was feeding on the same flower.
ID-help needed. Thanks.

Leif

Posted by John Carr on 01-08-2015 16:14
#2

In America these Lucilia-like flies with only one pair of postsutural acrostichals are Neomyia. I don't know about Europe.

Posted by Leif G on 01-08-2015 16:41
#3

Thanks John. We got two species of Neomyia in Norway, cornicina and viridescens. From this I suppose my fly is Neomyia cornicina, the most common of the two.

Leif

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 01-08-2015 17:30
#4

John Carr wrote:
In America these Lucilia-like flies with only one pair of postsutural acrostichals are Neomyia. I don't know about Europe.


This is exactly the same in Europe ! :)

I can't see if it has prst acr, but with 3 post dc it should be Neomyia cornicina indeed. The purple colour says : I'm very old now.

Posted by Leif G on 01-08-2015 17:32
#5

Thanks for the final confirmation and the words about the colour. I didn't know this.

Leif