Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Don't manage to find id of this hoverfly
Posted by bonitin on 17-11-2008 14:49
#1
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!:)
A side-view, it has a pointy abdomen,
Edited by bonitin on 17-11-2008 14:51
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 17-11-2008 14:52
#2
Sargus, Stratiomyidae
Posted by bonitin on 17-11-2008 14:53
#3
and a top-view;
Posted by bonitin on 17-11-2008 14:59
#4
Wow! that was fast Nikita!!! thanks so much! :)
Any idea of the specie ?
Frontal view;
Posted by bonitin on 17-11-2008 15:05
#5
it has a kind of face sculptured on its thorax;
Posted by bonitin on 17-11-2008 15:16
#6
No wonder I didn't find it, I was looking in the wrong family:|
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.?
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 17-11-2008 20:41
#7
Sargus bipunctatus.
Posted by bonitin on 18-11-2008 00:36
#8
Thank you so much Stephane!!:)