Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Caliprobola speciosa? (08.06.09) --> Brachypalpus sp.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 09-06-2009 03:53
#1
Hello!
This 10-12 mm fly was hovering around a tree trunk at the forest yesterday (northwest Germany). It looks like a
Caliprobola speciosa male without abdomen pattern (?).
Edited by Juergen Peters on 10-06-2009 02:19
Posted by phil withers on 09-06-2009 15:15
#2
Perhaps because it's a
Brachypalpus ?
Posted by Juergen Peters on 09-06-2009 15:44
#3
Hello, Phil!
phil withers wrote:
Perhaps because it's a Brachypalpus ?
That was my next guess. But with these orange wings and so rather slender??? I had
Brachypalpus laphriformis here several times, but they looked quite different.
Edited by Juergen Peters on 09-06-2009 15:48
Posted by Andre on 09-06-2009 18:32
#4
Males are more slender than females.