Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Eristalis (3)

Posted by Basil Crowley on 05-06-2009 23:42
#1

I would very much appreciate some help with species-level identifications of this genus.

Can you identify this and point out the distinguising characteristics that made, or might have made, identification possible.

On tulip leaf. Southern England, 26 April.

Many thanks.

Posted by conopid on 05-06-2009 23:58
#2

E pertinax - the pale front tibia clinch it.