Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Melangyna? (10.04.09)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-04-2009 22:27
#1
Hello!
Many (*) hover flies here (northwest Germany) in the last days (sunny, 20-26 °C) at flowering sloe hedges and elsewhere. This one is already from April-10. Could it be a
Melangyna sp.? Size about 8 mm.
(*):
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Cheilosia sp. (6-7 mm small, black)
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Cheilosia cf. orthotricha (12-14 mm)
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Episyrphus balteatus
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Eristalis interrupta
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Eristalis pertinax
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Helophilus pendulus
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Melanostoma scalare
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Melangyna sp. (?)
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Myatropa florea (unsure; at forest, could be a fast flying
Brachypalpus)
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Platycheirus albimanus
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Xanthogramma citrofasciata
Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-04-2009 22:27
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Pic #2
Posted by Juergen Peters on 16-04-2009 22:28
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Pic #3
Posted by blowave on 16-04-2009 23:00
#4
Hi Juergen,
I got pics on the 3rd of one which looks like this, I think it's Parasyrphus punctulatus.
Janet :)
Posted by Juergen Peters on 17-04-2009 01:37
#5
Hello, Janet!
blowave wrote:
I got pics on the 3rd of one which looks like this, I think it's Parasyrphus punctulatus.
Interesting, thanks! I did not take
Parasyrphus into account, because I never had found one this early. But the pics in the gallery do look very like it!
Posted by Andre on 17-04-2009 11:54
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It is an early species, starting in april and flying untill june.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 17-04-2009 17:15
#7
Hello, André!
Andre wrote:
It is an early species, starting in april and flying untill june.
Yes, I have searched my archives now and found, that my earliest finds were April-14, 2007, and April-17, 2008. So it was only a few days earlier this year. It a new "record", though... B)