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| Stephen |
Posted on 07-08-2006 11:38
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 Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Seems like a lot of Syrphid genera have this type of marking: Syrphus, Eupeodes, Epistrophe, Didea, and undoubtedly others. Working with on-line images, I think this may be Eupeodes. It looks to me that genus Syrphus is similar, but the abdomen of Eupeodes is typically margined in black as mine is. Have I got this right? This is a USA specimen, by the way: West Virginia. Photographed July 9. Stephen attached the following image:  [50.43Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| conopid |
Posted on 07-08-2006 12:24
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 Member Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1039 Joined: 02.07.04 |
I'd say it's Eupodes, but you proabbly will not be able to ID to species level from a photo. They are hard enough with a specimen and microscope!
Nigel Jones, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom |
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