Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Canadian Syrphid ID'd, Brachyopa

Posted by Tony T on 20-05-2012 16:58
#1

May 19 2012, New Brunswick. Length 6 mm.
Family ? perhaps even genus?

EDIT: title changed

Edited by Tony T on 21-05-2012 11:15

Posted by ChrisR on 20-05-2012 17:01
#2

Do I see a vena spuria? Could be Syrphidae :)

Edited by ChrisR on 20-05-2012 17:01

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 20-05-2012 18:07
#3

Syrphidae it is.

Posted by Tony T on 20-05-2012 20:18
#4

Thanks guys, of course - how embarrassing! I was fooled by the somewhat heavily marked veins, most of the NA Syrphids have totally hyaline wings.

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 20-05-2012 20:19
#5

I am sure that Gerard Pennards will be able to put a genus name, at least.

Posted by Grigory Popov on 21-05-2012 10:43
#6

If you lived in Palearctic not Nearctic, I would say Brachyopa :)

Posted by Tony T on 21-05-2012 11:14
#7

Excellent; thank you. The faunas at the genera levels are similar.
13 spp. in NA