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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » House Flies and kin (Muscidae) » Muscinae » Muscini » Musca » House Fly (Musca domestica)
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Muscidae? - Musca domestica - female
Copyright © 2016 Salvador Vitanza

Muscidae? - Musca domestica - Female
El Paso, El Paso County, Texas, USA
July 29, 2016
Captured while it was visiting flowers.

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Muscidae? - Musca domestica - female Muscidae? - Musca domestica - female
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Contributed by Salvador Vitanza on 30 July, 2016 - 8:06am
Last updated 3 September, 2018 - 1:58pm

Moved
Moved from House Flies and kin.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 30 September, 2016 - 7:40pm login or register to post comments

Musca domestica ......... fem
Musca domestica ......... female
… Bill Dean, 30 September, 2016 - 6:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Bill!
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… Salvador Vitanza, 30 September, 2016 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

Check Musca
Check Musca.
… John F. Carr, 30 July, 2016 - 12:17pm login or register to post comments

 
I believe
It is a female. Its wing venation, antennae, stripes on dorsum of thorax, color of abdomen, size, wide eye separation, etc. tell me that it could be either Musca domestica or M. autumnalis; probably the latter.
… Salvador Vitanza, 30 July, 2016 - 12:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… John F. Carr, 30 July, 2016 - 11:36am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you John!
.
… Salvador Vitanza, 30 July, 2016 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

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