Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Is it Syrphus vitripennis with too dark abdomen?

Posted by Rupert Huber on 08-07-2022 13:10
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Hi to all!

I can't find a better match than Syrphus vitripennis, though the yellow of the abdomen is rather black. Is it the look between laying eggs and dying? Or am I totally wrong?

The size fits to S. vitripennis.

Found 5.7.2022 in Germany, Upper Bavaria, next to Traunstein, about 580 m asl, coordinates 47.87032, 12.66569 on a meadow full of umbellifers.