Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Volucella... zonaria?

Posted by Isidro on 15-07-2007 11:05
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yesterday at Sestrica, Aragon, Spain. Habitat: Quercus suber forest. Very common in this forest but do not existe at lower level, in the fields.

Same size than zonaria: bigger than pellucens, lesser than inanis. When I saw it I thinked directly in V. zonaria. But seeing it closer, I found the colour a little strange. These reddish marks in the thorax and the abdomen colour makes me think in anothes species. It is true or it's only a colour variation of zonaria?

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Thanks ;)