Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Syrphidae #1
Posted by lagura on 22-04-2009 20:43
#1
My first Syrphidae (photographed) this year. I only managed to get this one photo.
Size: ~6mm
Date: 12 April 2009
Location: Wooden railing around a pond (Helsingborg, Sweden)
Thank you!
Posted by Juergen Peters on 22-04-2009 21:44
#2
Hi!
Both of your flies (#1 and #2) should be
Eupeodes corollae females.
Edit: Or #2 possibly a male (can't see the distance between the eyes very well).
Edited by Juergen Peters on 22-04-2009 21:46
Posted by lagura on 25-04-2009 23:45
#3
Hi Juergen. I really shouldn't argue with you as you know more about this than I do, but... I'm sure you're right in both #1 and # being Eupeodes, but I don't think it's corollae. Judging from the photos in the gallery these looks mor like E. lapponicus.
Btw #2 really is a male. I got a glimpse of him from the front before he took off.
Posted by dipdip on 26-04-2009 20:27
#4
Hi
it is not E. lapponicus - look at the wing: venation.
Could it be Melangyna lasiophthalma female and male?
Maja
Edited by dipdip on 26-04-2009 23:05
Posted by Bastiaan Wakkie on 28-04-2009 22:45
#5
Actually I believe this is an
Melangyna specie. The spots are too narrow and to linear to be an
Eupeodes.
What do you think?
Cheers,
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 28-04-2009 22:53
#6
Melangyna lasiopthalma female!
Greetings
Posted by lagura on 30-04-2009 22:07
#7
Thank you all very much! :)