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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 01-05-2007 04:00
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14364 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello! I think this 10 mm fly from yesterday at the forest (Ostwestfalen/Germany) is a syrphid of the genus Brachyopa. Can it be determined more closely? Thanks in advance! Juergen Peters attached the following image:  [68.58Kb] Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 01-05-2007 04:01
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Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14364 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Here another picture.
Juergen Peters attached the following image:  [49.22Kb] Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| Gerard Pennards |
Posted on 01-05-2007 18:26
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 Member Location: Amersfoort Posts: 1914 Joined: 07.06.04 |
Hello Juergen, Yes, this is definitely a female Brachyopa sp. Unfortunately there are several species with these colors, and I don't think it is possible to identify it from this picture! We can narrow it down a bit: it seems your animal has longer hairs on the arista, that would give us the choice of scutellaris, plena or pilosa! In scutellaris the humeri (the shoulders) are hardly dusted and brownish in color, so that leaves us with plena and pilosa! To see which one it could be, we should have a more detailed picture of the third antennal segment, in this picture it is not clear enough! Greetings Edited by Gerard Pennards on 01-05-2007 18:29 Greetings, Gerard Pennards |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 01-05-2007 20:47
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Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14364 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hello, Gerard! Many thanks for the confirmation of Brachyopa and your further explanations! Gerard Pennards wrote: To see which one it could be, we should have a more detailed picture of the third antennal segment, in this picture it is not clear enough! I'm afraid, even in a non-compressed form (below) the picture is not clear enough... 
Juergen Peters attached the following image:  [130.91Kb] Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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