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MichaelMulvaney
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11 Jan 2025
Appears to lack flap like plates that you find on lower sides of scutellum - third segment of thorax (mid body)
Amenia sp. (genus)
KorinneM
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25 Dec 2024
There was a suggestion over on iNaturalist that this is Genus Chaetophthalmus.
Calliphora stygia
MichaelMulvaney
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24 Dec 2024
No they look pretty similar it is the white spots towards the head which make this one Amenia
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MichaelMulvaney
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24 Dec 2024
Thanks Robert does look like something else I have seen somewhere will try to find out
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Aussiegall
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25 Nov 2024
@
Span102
thanks
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