Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chrysotoxum elegans? - > confirmed

Posted by treebeard on 16-07-2014 19:12
#1

Hi,

Can anybody confirm (or correct) my ID of Chrysotoxum elegans? It should not be so difficult to identify it, howvever, there is one slighltly strange character: yellov bands reach abdominal margin, but they turns to brown on it. It differ from specimens I have seen yet.

14 July 2014, Slovakia, Carpathians, Banska Bystrica:

Edited by treebeard on 17-07-2014 18:02

Posted by treebeard on 16-07-2014 19:15
#2

and side view of the same specimen:



Thank you in advance,

Matej

Posted by ValerioW on 16-07-2014 19:52
#3

Yes. C. elegans male, I'm agree with you (C. verrali is quite different, but can be distinguish thanks to these photos)

Posted by ValerioW on 16-07-2014 19:53
#4

*typo:distinguished

Posted by treebeard on 16-07-2014 21:16
#5

Thank you very much