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 Syrphidae - Austalis sp.
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| valter |
Posted on 20-08-2015 21:38
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 Member Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 1998 Joined: 09.07.07 |
location: Azores, Portugal date: August 2015 Thanks, Valter valter attached the following image:  [70.54Kb] Edited by valter on 24-08-2015 06:59 |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 20-08-2015 22:39
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7293 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Syrphidae, but I don't recognise the genus
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| valter |
Posted on 21-08-2015 07:27
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Member Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 1998 Joined: 09.07.07 |
A new genus? |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 21-08-2015 08:39
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For that, you would have to ask a syrphid expert, not me! 
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| valter |
Posted on 21-08-2015 12:57
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Member Location: Faro, Portugal Posts: 1998 Joined: 09.07.07 |
Who? |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 21-08-2015 17:00
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Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7293 Joined: 19.11.04 |
Gerard Pennards may be able to help.
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| Andre |
Posted on 21-08-2015 17:50
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 Member Location: Tilburg, the Netherlands Posts: 2111 Joined: 18.07.04 |
It is a Palpada, and yes, that would mean a new genus for the European continent! Congratulations! So.. read my PM please... cheers, André |
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| John Carr |
Posted on 21-08-2015 20:34
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The North American species are illustrated here, but there are about 100-200 more in South America: http://bugguide.n...iew/856490 http://bugguide.n...iew/856490 |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 21-08-2015 23:48
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The other genus that crossed my mind was Kertesziomyia, but either way, I think Valter needs to go and catch a specimen! 
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| Maddin |
Posted on 24-08-2015 01:13
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 Member Location: Sacramento CA USA Posts: 194 Joined: 30.06.05 |
It is surely none of the North American Palpada, and I also first thought of Kertesziomyia, but none of my specimens or the one I could finds pics of have a yellow face. Looking deeper in my collection I found several species of Austalis Thompson 2003 (yes NOT Australis), which are greenish metallic and have a yellow face. Also the space between the eyes is narrow in Kerteszomyia, but broader in Austalis, which also better matches the pictures. The distribution is From New Caledonia, through Australia to Asia, so really far away from the Azores! Very interesting find... now we need some specimens collected!! Martin Hauser |
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| Jeff Skevington |
Posted on 03-09-2015 15:46
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I had a look through our Australian Austalis (we have most species here at CNC, including loan material for our Aussie syrphid project). It is certainly similar to some but doesn't really strike me as being in this genus. The gestault to me is more like Kertesziomyia. K. viridis is quite similar overall but the eyes are very widely separated on the unknown species. Like everyone, I look forward to seeing specimens of this some day! |
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