Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Platycheirus ambiguus?

Posted by Louis Boumans on 01-06-2026 22:57
#1

I found a female black Syrphid in my garden, which I tentatively identified as Platycheirus ambiguus, a species I had not collected before. However, pictures on internet show the abdomen with gray spots. With some imagination I can see dusted spts on the abdomen of my specimen, but it remains ambiguus.

Any thoughts on what this could be?
NO, Oslo, 31 May 2026

(I struggle to attach a picture; will try in a replay to my own post)

Edited by Louis Boumans on 01-06-2026 23:13

Posted by Louis Boumans on 01-06-2026 23:09
#2

pc1

no error message, no picture either...
even though I changed file name to pic_one.jpg and size is only 500 kb.

Edited by Louis Boumans on 01-06-2026 23:15

Posted by Juergen Peters on 01-06-2026 23:51
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Louis Boumans wrote:
size is only 500 kb.

Maximum is about 300 kb.