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Don't manage to find id of this hoverfly
bonitin
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Posted on 17-11-2008 14:49
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I found it in my garden on the 10th of November resting on a leaf and cleaning itself. I didn't find a match in the gallery.
What could it be?
Thanks!Smile

A side-view, it has a pointy abdomen,
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Sargus, Stratiomyidae
Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University
 
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and a top-view;
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Wow! that was fast Nikita!!! thanks so much! Smile
Any idea of the specie ?

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it has a kind of face sculptured on its thorax;
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No wonder I didn't find it, I was looking in the wrong familyFrown
But now I found one in the Gallery: Stratiomyidae family; Sargus flavipes that also has that kind of African mask sculptured on its thorax, so perhaps it is that one or should I just call it Sargus sp.?
 
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Sargus bipunctatus.
Stephane.
 
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Thank you so much Stephane!!Smile
 
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