Thread subject: Diptera.info :: E. arbustorum or E. brousii???

Posted by pilonm on 08-02-2009 17:47
#1
Hello,

Here is a syrphidae I photographied in July 2008 at Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada (near Vermont, USA).

This male is whether an Eristalis arbustorum or whether an Eristalis brousii...

Any idea???


Thanks again!

Michel

parcours.pilonm.org/pictures/inconnu49.jpg

parcours.pilonm.org/pictures/inconnu50.jpg

Posted by Wouter van Steenis on 28-02-2009 23:43
#2
it looks like E. arbustorum to me. The most obvious difference is the basitars of the second leg: black in E. brousii; yellow-brown in E. arbustorum.

Wouter