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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » House Flies and kin (Muscidae) » Muscinae » Muscini » Musca
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Housefly? - Musca
Copyright © 2005 Chuck Entz

Housefly? - Musca
Encino, Los Angeles County, California, USA
November 19, 2005
Size: 1/4 inch
This has 4 stripes on the thorax, the pattern of wing veins looks identical to that in pictures of Musca domestica, and it was certainly more than annoying enough!

The weather was warm, so I was walking around barefoot. The flies were apparently attracted to the sweat on my skin and constantly kept lighting on my feet and arms (mostly my camera arm, of course!). The pictures here are either on my foot or on my pants leg.

There were two flies that followed me around, so I'm not positive that these are the same specimen.

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Contributed by Chuck Entz on 20 November, 2005 - 9:19pm
Last updated 9 October, 2012 - 12:13pm

Moved
Moved from Muscinae.
… John F. Carr, 9 October, 2012 - 12:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from House Flies and kin.
… John F. Carr, 6 April, 2011 - 5:05pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Muscoidea.
… v belov, 16 April, 2009 - 10:16pm login or register to post comments

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… v belov, 10 April, 2009 - 3:08pm login or register to post comments

looks like one to me
I would say that this image and the one I posted here both look like female House Flies. Their wing venation matches the pictures of Musca domestica at this U. of Pennsylvania page and this U. of Nebraska page.
Females of the Face Fly (Musca autumnalis) apparently have a narrower frontal stripe that occupies only a third of the distance between the eyes, as shown in the photo on this Govt. of Saskatchewan page. In female House Flies, the frontal stripe occupies more than half the distance between the eyes, as seen in both of our photos and in the pictures linked to above.
… Robin McLeod, 20 November, 2005 - 11:04pm login or register to post comments

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