Posted by David Clements on 22-04-2007 16:57
#16
I am not so sure that this is
Myopa buccata. The middle crossvein (R-M) is, as far as I can tell, blackish and it is this vein which is diagnostically whitish in
buccata. The arrowed whitish crossvein appears to be M-Cu. Superficially the species looks very like
variegata, but the wing-markings and occiptal 'beard' rule this out. It
could be an aberrant
buccata, but my feeling is that this is something altogether different.