Posted by Juergen Peters on 29-08-2008 23:05
#1
Hello!
Is this
Ferdinandea cuprea, or should I leave a 'cf.' in the name? It visited a banana bait at a tree in our garden this afternoon (northwest Germany). Length about 10-12 mm.
Here are some more (and larger) pictures of that phantastic fly:
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Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 29-08-2008 23:17
#2
Yes it is
Ferdinandea cuprea, a beautiful syrphid indeed ! :)
I can also see a
Muscina and some
Drosophila in the other pictures.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 29-08-2008 23:52
#3
Hello, Stephane!
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
Yes it is Ferdinandea cuprea
Many thanks for confirmation!
I can also see a Muscina and some Drosophila in the other pictures.
Yes, there a many, many flies at the rotting bananas at the moment. Most frequent (except from the myriads of
Drosophila):
Phaonia pallida,
valida,
subventa,
Polietes,
Calliphora,
Lucilia,
Suillia,
Neuroctena,
Episyrphus etc.
And at night many Noctuids B):
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