Diptera.info :: Family forums :: Syrphidae
 199_ID? (Microdon devius)
|
|
| Mucha Fero |
Posted on 21-10-2011 04:06
|
 Member Location: Posts: 8225 Joined: 27.09.10 |
Please identify 199_ID flies. Slovak Republic, Malá Fatra-Terchová, approximately 700 m above sea level. Thank you very much for your help. Best regards! Fote date: 10.07.2011.
Mucha Fero attached the following image:  [189.34Kb] Edited by Mucha Fero on 21-10-2011 11:03 |
|
|
|
| ChrisR |
Posted on 21-10-2011 09:27
|
 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7703 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Looks like Microdon to me - so moving to Syrphidae 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
 |
|
| Mucha Fero |
Posted on 21-10-2011 11:04
|
|
Member Location: Posts: 8225 Joined: 27.09.10 |
ChrisR wrote: Looks like Microdon to me - so moving to Syrphidae Chris thank you very much. |
|
|
|
| Menno Reemer |
Posted on 22-10-2011 14:38
|
|
Member Location: Posts: 343 Joined: 10.06.04 |
Chris is right, this is a Microdon. The only European species with patches of black pile on the mesoscutum is M. devius, but as far as I know these patches should be restricted to the posterior half. In this specimen, the black pilosity is far more extensive. Interesting! Did you collect it? |
|
|
|
| Jump to Forum: |