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Description: The false stable fly is not a bloodsucker and has sponging-sucking mouthparts like the house fly. It is larger and more robust than the house fly. Overall colour is dark grey, with the head a lighter whitish-grey. The gray thorax has four longitudinal stripes and the posterior tip of the scutellum (dorsal rear lobe of the thorax) is pale yellow. The abdomen is grey and black with a blotched appearance. The fourth longitudinal vein (M1+2) of the wings is not bent and converges only slightly towards the vein in front of it; this is similar to the arrangement in the stable fly and quite different from the sharply bent vein in the house fly. The legs of the false stable fly are partly red-gold or cinnamon.
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