Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly from Hong Kong: family is... ?
Posted by chickenold on 03-11-2008 04:36
#1
Found in Apr 07 on a hillside trail
Sorry that no dorsal side photo (and thus venation) could be made before it flew away...
Edited by chickenold on 03-11-2008 04:37
Posted by Paul Beuk on 03-11-2008 08:47
#2
Moved it to the Syrphidae forum to give you a first answer.
Posted by Andre on 03-11-2008 21:37
#3
Looks like some
Xylota or closely related genus... Maybe Gerard can be of any help?
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 03-11-2008 22:28
#4
Yep, I can, because I have a similar fly in my picture database.
It's a female Eumerus, but just as in Europe that as far as you're gonna get from a picture!
So, female Eumerus sp.!
Greetings
Posted by Andre on 04-11-2008 20:00
#5
In that case, maddin may be interested... ;)
Posted by Maddin on 13-11-2008 03:47
#6
This is a strange one... I do not think that this is Eumerus... the thin legs and the golden coloration, although the head looks like Eumerus... I would rather guess maybe something along Platycheirus???? But I am not sure at all....maybe I will get later an inspiration...
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 15-11-2008 22:48
#7
Well, in that case I'd suggest a female Speginobaccha sp., I think after looking again it's even a better suggestion than Eumerus. There are about a dozen species in the oriental I think.
Greetings
Posted by chickenold on 25-04-2009 17:04
#8
Met it today in a butterfly garden of a country parkin Hong Kong... seems to be the same species?
Edited by chickenold on 27-04-2009 16:11
Posted by chickenold on 27-04-2009 16:16
#9
Side view attached.
Posted by Andre on 27-04-2009 23:09
#10
Do you collect also, or only make pictures?
Posted by chickenold on 28-04-2009 16:27
#11
Andre wrote:
Do you collect also, or only make pictures?
No... at the moment I do not have the space and skill to keep specimens.
But some of my friends do collect and keep them, though not confined to Diptera.
Posted by Maddin on 30-04-2009 06:59
#12
This one is clearly a Spheginobaccha! Great pic!