Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Xylotini from America in May (= Brachypalpus oarus)

Posted by John Carr on 21-11-2012 22:30
#1
These flies are found on a boardwalk in a marsh in western Massachusetts, USA in late May.

From May 22, 2010:
farm5.staticflickr.com/4007/4665204350_428ac2fdeb_z.jpg
(Click to enlarge or view on Flickr.)

farm5.staticflickr.com/4067/4665540933_1a87a468a2_z.jpg
(Click to enlarge.)

From May 29, 2009:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3390/3611814633_18c749dec2_o.jpg

Another from May 29, 2009:
farm4.staticflickr.com/3341/3611822753_741590da0f.jpg
(Click to enlarge or view on Flickr.)
Edited by John Carr on 22-11-2012 00:34

Posted by Gerard Pennards on 22-11-2012 00:25
#2
It's Brachypalpus oarus.
They are not all the same specimen, because the last picture is a female, the other pictures show a male!
greetings

Posted by John Carr on 22-11-2012 00:33
#3
Thanks for the ID. Three specimens from two different years, same place and same time of year.