Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Melanic Platycheirus?
Posted by blowave on 27-08-2010 01:05
#1
Hi,
I have had melanic Melanostoma mellinum, but this is surely Platycheirus. In fact it looks like the one I put on for ID which I had thought to be Platycheirus europaeus but without the spots.
Taken on 22nd August, woodlands and heathlands type habitat, my garden a few miles south of Lincoln UK.
Any takers? :D
Janet
Posted by blowave on 27-08-2010 01:06
#2
pic 2
Posted by blowave on 27-08-2010 01:07
#3
pic 3
Posted by blowave on 27-08-2010 01:09
#4
pic 4
Posted by Andre on 27-08-2010 11:02
#5
It is
Platycheirus indeed. And, indeed, the only melanic (not melanistic?; practising my english ;) )
Platycheirus I ever found is one
P. europaeus.
The visible characters on your pics all direct to
P. europaeus.
Posted by blowave on 27-08-2010 16:30
#6
Andre wrote:
It is Platycheirus indeed. And, indeed, the only melanic (not melanistic?; practising my english ;) ) Platycheirus I ever found is one P. europaeus.
The visible characters on your pics all direct to P. europaeus.
I went through the key, and that was my conclusion too but to hear you have only ever come across a melanic P. europaeus had me doing cartwheels! :D:D:D