Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Is this Sphaerophoria, and then which species?
Posted by rafael_carbonell on 12-06-2008 18:05
#1
Hello,
Someone told me this fly should be Sphaerophoria, but looking at the species of the genus, it doesn't seem any in my area. Do you have any idea? Thanks.
Eating nectar from Leucanthemum vulgare, road vegetation border in a stone-oak environment, Can Benet, Sales de Llierca, Girona, Spain, UTM31T DG7177, 250 m, 12.06.2008.
Posted by Sundew on 12-06-2008 18:45
#2
Looks like a male
Sphaerophoria indeed. Post it in the Syrphidae forum to attract the experts! The double thread without photo can easily be deleted with the "edit" function, going to "delete this thread".
Regards, Sundew
Posted by Susan R Walter on 13-06-2008 10:26
#3
It is clearly
Sphaerophoria scripta, with wings tips obviously falling short of the tip of the abdomen.
Posted by rafael_carbonell on 13-06-2008 20:44
#4
Thank you very much, it seemed to me the colour of the abdomen looked somewhat different as, i.e., the picture of Gerard Pennards, with black-pale yellow-black-bright yellow... in my picture, but I suppose is because intraspecific variation...
Posted by Susan R Walter on 14-06-2008 22:55
#5
Yes, the amount of yellow can vary a lot.:)