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French Guianan syrphid larvae?
ChrisR	#1 Posted on 21-03-2011 17:58
Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	Can anyone confirm whether these are syrphids? They were taken in French Guiana and are likely to be different species but I lumped them all here for brevity. Photos come from Stephane Brule Is there any chance of a tribe/sub-family? ChrisR attached the following image: [65.48Kb] Edited by ChrisR on 21-03-2011 18:01 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


ChrisR	#2 Posted on 21-03-2011 17:59
Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	and another ... ChrisR attached the following image: [88.62Kb] Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


ChrisR	#3 Posted on 21-03-2011 18:00
Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	and another ... ChrisR attached the following image: [59.24Kb] Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


ChrisR	#4 Posted on 21-03-2011 18:00
Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	and another ... ChrisR attached the following image: [88.6Kb] Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.


Paul Beuk	#5 Posted on 21-03-2011 19:57
Super Administrator Location: Netherlands Posts: 19229 Joined: 11.05.04	They are all syrphid laervae. Paul - - - - Paul Beuk on https://diptera.info


Menno Reemer	#6 Posted on 22-03-2011 08:58
Member Location: Posts: 343 Joined: 10.06.04	Yes, subfamily Syrphinae. On the 2nd picture are 2 larvae of Ocyptamus dimidiatus. On the 3rd picture a larva of Ocyptamus gastrostactus. I reared both species in Surinam. I don't know the other two. Please encourage Stephane to try to rear them! This would produce so much new information!


ChrisR	#7 Posted on 22-03-2011 09:51
Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7699 Joined: 12.07.04	Oh wow, thanks - great information there Menno - much more than I thought could be gained from photos of larvae I will certainly try to get Stephane to collect and rear more material. I am also in touch with another entomologist out there who will twist his arm ... Stephane is a coleopterist so he does understand the importance of collecting but I think his time is limited and he does all of this as a hobby. Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London.