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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Muscoidea » House Flies and kin (Muscidae) » Azeliinae » Reinwardtiini » Muscina » Muscina pascuorum
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Muscid Fly - Muscina pascuorum
Copyright © 2006 Stephen_WV

Muscid Fly - Muscina pascuorum
Near Ruraldale, Upshur County, West Virginia, USA
September 2, 2006
Sarcophagidae, no? Any further thoughts about the ID?

[changed title 12-2011]

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Contributed by Stephen_WV on 23 October, 2006 - 3:59pm
Last updated 12 December, 2011 - 5:51pm

Moved
Moved from House Flies and kin. Fairly sure this is M. pascuorum.
… Brad Barnd, 12 December, 2011 - 3:32am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flesh Flies.
… Stephen_WV, 29 October, 2006 - 4:51pm login or register to post comments

Muscidae
This is a muscid. No flesh fly would have the eyes so close to eachother, and flesh flies are usually grey and white checkerboard-like on the abdomen. By a first glance it may look like a blow fly, but the wing venation has a very obtuse bend of vein M, not the sharp angle of typical blow flies.
… Thomas Pape, 29 October, 2006 - 2:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank-you
Thomas, Thank-you very much for your ID of this one!
… Stephen_WV, 29 October, 2006 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

Blow fly.
This looks like a blow fly to me (family Calliphoridae), but I wouldn't be surprised to be corrected myself:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 23 October, 2006 - 5:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thanks, Eric! Yes, ID'ing these Calyptrate families can really get hairy (ha!)

I guess what had me thinking Sarcophagidae was how the arista (visible in the close-up photo) is plumose for half its length and then bare for the rest. But like you I hasten to say that I could easily be wrong on this one!
… Stephen_WV, 23 October, 2006 - 5:32pm login or register to post comments

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