Posted by Juergen Peters on 01-05-2007 05:00
#1
Hello!
I think this 10 mm fly from yesterday at the forest (Ostwestfalen/Germany) is a syrphid of the genus
Brachyopa. Can it be determined more closely? Thanks in advance!
Posted by Gerard Pennards on 01-05-2007 19:26
#3
Hello Juergen,
Yes, this is definitely a female Brachyopa sp. Unfortunately there are several species with these colors, and I don't think it is possible to identify it from this picture!
We can narrow it down a bit: it seems your animal has longer hairs on the arista, that would give us the choice of
scutellaris, plena or
pilosa! In
scutellaris the humeri (the shoulders) are hardly dusted and brownish in color, so that leaves us with
plena and
pilosa!
To see which one it could be, we should have a more detailed picture of the third antennal segment, in this picture it is not clear enough!
Greetings
Edited by Gerard Pennards on 01-05-2007 19:29
Posted by Juergen Peters on 01-05-2007 21:47
#4
Hello, Gerard!
Many thanks for the confirmation of
Brachyopa and your further explanations!
Gerard Pennards wrote:
To see which one it could be, we should have a more detailed picture of the third antennal segment, in this picture it is not clear enough!
I'm afraid, even in a non-compressed form (below) the picture is not clear enough... :(