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 199_ID? (Microdon devius)
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| Mucha Fero |
Posted on 21-10-2011 05:06
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Please identify 199_ID flies. Slovak Republic, Malá Fatra-Terchová, approximately 700 m above sea level. Thank you very much for your help. Best regards! Fote date: 10.07.2011.
Mucha Fero attached the following image:  [189.34Kb] Edited by Mucha Fero on 21-10-2011 12:03 |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 21-10-2011 10:27
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Looks like Microdon to me - so moving to Syrphidae 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Mucha Fero |
Posted on 21-10-2011 12:04
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ChrisR wrote: Looks like Microdon to me - so moving to Syrphidae Chris thank you very much. |
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| Menno Reemer |
Posted on 22-10-2011 15:38
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Chris is right, this is a Microdon. The only European species with patches of black pile on the mesoscutum is M. devius, but as far as I know these patches should be restricted to the posterior half. In this specimen, the black pilosity is far more extensive. Interesting! Did you collect it? |
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