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House Fly - Musca domestica - female
Copyright © 2005 Robin McLeod

House Fly - Musca domestica - Female
Ailsa Craig, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada
October 30, 2005
Size: about 7 mm
Several of these were on the side of our house today.

Update 23 Dec 2005: I searched the Internet and found more info & images. This one has the typical features of a female Musca domestica: 4 stripes on thorax, wing vein M1+2 sharply bent near tip, and an ovoid frontal stripe that occupies more than half the distance between the eyes (distinguishing it from a female Musca autumnalis).
Image moved from Muscidae to new species page.
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Contributed by Robin McLeod on 31 October, 2005 - 7:26pm
Last updated 23 December, 2005 - 1:30pm

Interesting veins
But they don't match the figure for Musca domestica in Borror and White (1). I hope that you are right, though. I keep struggling with muscids and can't figure out anything.
I don't know why we don't have any house flies yet and so few muscids (just one page and only one ID'ed to genus), with 700 species and most of them associated with humans you would expect to have many in this site but it isn't so. I guess that familiarity breeds contempt.
… Beatriz Moisset, 1 November, 2005 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

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