Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Platycheirus ?
Posted by Stephen on 02-09-2006 13:36
#1
A long skinny Syrphid, genus Platycheirus? Photographed next to a pond, West Virginia USA, 11 June 2006. Size not recorded.
Help with ID appreciated!
Posted by Paul Beuk on 02-09-2006 14:03
#2
By all accounts, the for tarsi seem to indicate as much.
Posted by Stephen on 02-09-2006 14:55
#3
That the tarsi are pale and thick?
In Syrphids can we assume with eyes this large that this is a male?
Posted by Paul Beuk on 02-09-2006 16:13
#4
Pale not necessarily, but the tarsus is modified (broadened segments in this case).
Posted by Stephen on 02-09-2006 16:22
#5
Thanks, Paul!