Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Unknown hoverfly, Hungary
Posted by eguzki on 25-10-2006 20:38
#1
I have never observed yet this fly in the garden thus I don't know it is a rare or common sp. Whether rare or not, I think the pattern of the fly is very conspicuous indeed. Can anyone give me some indications?
Thank you in advance!
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 26-10-2006 20:53
#2
The same picture of Eupeodes luniger! B)
Greetings,
Posted by eguzki on 26-10-2006 21:08
#3
Gerard Pennards wrote:
The same picture of Eupeodes luniger! B)
Greetings,
I think one sp. possesses two name Metasyrphus corollae / Eupeodes luniger. It is possible?
Posted by pierred on 27-10-2006 06:35
#4
Hello,
The genus
Metasyrphus is now
Eupeodes.
Edited by pierred on 27-10-2006 06:36
Posted by eguzki on 08-11-2006 20:41
#5
pierred wrote:
Hello,
The genus Metasyrphus is now Eupeodes.
Thank you Pierre!
Can you tell me that what is the exact difference between E. luniger and E. corollae?
Posted by pierred on 09-11-2006 07:52
#6
Hello,
I can't answer you. My thin knowledge is too fresh.
Posted by kitenet on 09-11-2006 18:41
#7
Alan Stubbs' key to the British species separates luniger and corollae by the amount of yellow at the margins of the abdomen - in corollae the yellow lunules continue all the way to the lateral margins of the abdomen, with at least 50% of each segment edge yellow, in luniger the yellow lunules do not usually spread across to the edge (or if they do it is no more than 25% yellow), there is usually a narrow black strip all along the edge of the segments. But there are several other species in the genus as well, so you can't assume that all black-edged Eupeodes are luniger.
Martin
Edited by kitenet on 09-11-2006 18:43