Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Syrphid flower party- Chicaque Colombia
Posted by dguzman58 on 14-07-2011 16:11
#1
ID to genus of these 2 Syrphids? Please? 2500 msn Cundinamarca, Colombia, Cloud Forest
Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 14-07-2011 16:17
#2
I think Gerard Pennards will have an attack when he'll see these syrphids.
Posted by Menno Reemer on 14-07-2011 16:33
#3
The big ones are
Dolichogyna, the small ones
Toxomerus.
Posted by dguzman58 on 14-07-2011 16:41
#4
thanks!! Thanks!!
Posted by John Smit on 14-07-2011 17:13
#5
I beg to differ, I think the bigger ones are Lejops most probably L. mexicanus.
John
Posted by Menno Reemer on 15-07-2011 19:55
#6
Yes, John is right: they belong to the subgenus Asemosyrphus of Lejops. The cause of my mistake seems to be that the genus Lejops is apparently (and erroneously) missing in the key to Neotropical syrphid genera of Thompson (1999). I had used this to identify a series of specimens from Mexico in my collection which look very much like the specimens on the picture. As Lejops is not included in the key, they keyed to Dolichogyna...
Edited by Menno Reemer on 15-07-2011 19:55