Muscid? - Bellardia bayeri

Bellardia bayeri (Jacentkovsky)

Moved from Oestroidea. ID'd from specimen, now a photo-voucher. Thanks Tom!

Tom, what a nice find! This threw me for a loop because I tried keying using the eastern Canadian key (1) and it wasn't making much sense. So I pulled up Whitworth's paper (2) and found it is Bellardia bayeri, an introduced species. The locality records for this species in (2) are Strafford Co, NH and Middlesex Co, MA, so apparently established in your area.

Bellardia are the only viviparous blowflies in North America and are believed to be earthworm parasites.

… Brad Barnd, 13 August, 2013 - 12:23am

Thank You!

John just ID'd one of mine. Just wanted to extend my appreciation, thanks!

… Steve Nanz, 24 September, 2013 - 5:07pm

Bellardia bayeri

Brad, great detective work finding the ID on this introduced fly. Thanks for the effort and getting a new genus and species in the guide!

… tom murray, 13 August, 2013 - 6:07am

Moved

Moved from Flies.

… John F. Carr, 18 October, 2012 - 7:55pm

Related to?

Similar to 634883.

… John F. Carr, 13 October, 2012 - 11:35am

Calliphoridae?

I think this is a non-metallic Calliphoridae.

… John F. Carr, 7 October, 2012 - 3:26pm

any other angles?

… Brad Barnd, 6 October, 2012 - 11:03pm

Not really

Just a more straight on dorsal. Is this one you want me to save?

… tom murray, 6 October, 2012 - 11:07pm

if you want

family is easy with specimen, but further ID may, depending on what it is, require a specialist

… Brad Barnd, 6 October, 2012 - 11:10pm