CLOSED: Yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, Scathophagidae

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 11, 2007

Yellow dung fly, Scathophaga stercoraria, Family Scathophagidae, we don't have this family yet.

Not the best of pictures but it looks right to me, I have looked at other species of Scathophaga and they are significantly different.

http://www.insektengalerie.de/insekten-index/index_zweifluegler.html

http://www.uksafari.com/dungfly.htm

It was in the shade, but definitely yellow, this site says the female is duller so it could be a female, it's difficult to tell. There are horses nearby so I guess they will be attracted to the dung.

http://www-biol.paisley.ac.uk/bioref/Animalia_inverts/Scathophaga_stercoraria.html

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 11, 2007

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 12, 2007

Janet, I agree with your ID as Yellow Dung Fly (Scathophaga stercoraria) and I have created an entry for it here: http://davesgarden.com/bf/go/4762/
to get the new family started in BugFiles.
I will pick one of your images for the index, when you have uploaded them,

Ken

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wallaby1 Lincoln, United Kingdom(Zone 8a) Jul 12, 2007

Thanks Ken, I have uploaded the images.

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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Jul 13, 2007

Thanks Janet, I have selected one of your images to illustrate the Scathophagidae in the BugFiles index,

Ken

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