Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Meliscaeva or the like?

Posted by Sundew on 17-02-2008 00:55
#1

Hello,
Here is another syrphid on ivy flower visit. It is no Melanostoma because of the yellow scutellum and the missing facial knob (at least I could not see it). Can it be a Meliscaeva, a genus still insufficiently known to me? Photographed in Berlin on 1st October.
Thanks for information, Sundew

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 17-02-2008 12:28
#2

It is Meliscaeva (=Episyrphus) auricollis.