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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 14-07-2006 21:20
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Taken today - 14th July 2006 - in Silgueiros - Viseu - PORTUGAL with nikon coolpix 3100. Temperatures very near 40?C... (almost 6 p.m.) Don?t know which fly can be... ID please.  To see it larger: http://www.flickr...119&size=o |
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| Nikita Vikhrev |
Posted on 14-07-2006 21:29
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 Member Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 9475 Joined: 24.05.05 |
Syrphidae, as far as I know Eristalinus.
Nikita Vikhrev - Zool Museum of Moscow University |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 14-07-2006 22:44
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
Eristalinus aeneus (Scopoli 1763) Eristalinus megacephalus (Rossi 1794) Eristalinus sepulchralis (Linnaeus 1758) Eristalinus taeniops (Wiedemann 1818) thank you. In Portugal there are 4 Eristalinus spp. according to the fauna europaea. Which of these are the most probable for this fly? |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 15-07-2006 08:19
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
Possibly Eristalinus sepulchralis (Linnaeus 1758). It is not aeneus nor taeniops. I have no idea what megacephalus looks like.
Kahis |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 15-07-2006 16:05
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7306 Joined: 19.11.04 |
This has very pale hind knees, compared to most sepulchralis I have seen. Also it doesn't look "crumpled" enough for that species, and the head looks to be too big. Is that a clue, I wonder?
Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| Xespok |
Posted on 16-07-2006 20:26
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 Member Location: Debrecen, Hungary Posts: 5551 Joined: 02.03.05 |
Can you explain me what the major differences should be between the various species in the genus. I am also struggling with a few images like the one above. Also the web seems to have a lot of misidentified images within this genus. |
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