Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Xylota?

Posted by mwkozlowski on 05-07-2010 10:28
#1

Looks like a male of Xylota, but rather strange coloration. 2.07.10, Bekid Niski Mt. PL

Posted by Paul Beuk on 05-07-2010 11:08
#2

Chalcosyrphus valgus, I think.

Posted by Menno Reemer on 05-07-2010 13:08
#3

Considering the shape op hind femur and tibia, the apparently yellow knob of the halter, the apparently dark pterostigma and overall jizz, I think it's C. curvipes (nowadays called C. femoratus by syrphidologists who whish to be nomenclatorally correct, but as that name used to be used for the species we now call C. valgus, I prefer to use C. curvipes for this one, in order to avoid confusion, if you're still with me...)

Posted by Andre on 05-07-2010 19:54
#4

We can also 'just' call it a spectacular species! :D