Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Is it Syrphus vitripennis with too dark abdomen?

Posted by Rupert Huber on 08-07-2022 14:10
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Hi to all!

I can't find a better match than Syrphus vitripennis, though the yellow of the abdomen is rather black. Is it the look between laying eggs and dying? Or am I totally wrong?

The size fits to S. vitripennis.

Found 5.7.2022 in Germany, Upper Bavaria, next to Traunstein, about 580 m asl, coordinates 47.87032, 12.66569 on a meadow full of umbellifers.

Posted by Rupert Huber on 08-07-2022 14:10
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2nd pic

Posted by Rupert Huber on 08-07-2022 14:11
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3rd pic

Posted by Juergen Peters on 08-07-2022 22:03
#4

Syrphus vitripennis or torvus. Not visible, if the eyes are hairy.

Posted by Rupert Huber on 09-07-2022 11:57
#5

Thanks Jürgen!
So the colour of the abdomen seems to only try out it's range of variability (and doesn't lead to a different species).