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blow fly - Bellardia vulgaris - male

blow fly - Bellardia vulgaris - Male
Milton, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
October 28, 2017
Much like Bellardia bayeri but calypters whitish rather than brown and with four rather than three presutural dorsocental setae. Larger image.

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Moved
Moved from Bellardia due to bicolored lower calypter and parafacial lacking dark spot

 
agree
I agree with Bellardia vulgaris male. The upper parafacialia lack a consistent spot, both calypters are pale, the abdomen is strongly dusted and the distance of the dm-cu to the bend of the m vein is greater than two times the distance from the bend of the m vein to the wing margin (Rognes 1991). The images with red markings belong in the frass section as they depict nothing useful for separating species of Bellardia :-)

3 dc
I see 3 postsutural dorsocentrals with the first two a little more widely spaced.

 
re: 3 dc
Here's a blowup appearing to show four presutural bristles in a row. Are these dc's? They appear to be the 2nd row out from the center (I'd call the first row acrostichals):

I've also added five more images of flies I labeled Bellardia bayeri previously, and highlighted the presutural bristles in this row. I see that there are 3,3,4,2, and 5, respectively. There always seems to be a wide gap between the hindmost and the next one forward. The fly with two bristles (one reduced to a basal pit) seems to have lost some; the flies with more than three seem to double them up at the front end. I conclude that counting presutural dorsocentral bristles is not always a reliable species character.