Posted by Jirka on 07-11-2014 03:15
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Please, can someone help me with identification of this Sphaerophoria? It doesn't have visible yellow stripes on the margins of thorax, so I don't know, if these stripes should be interrupted (then - using Van Veen key - it seems to be S. schirchan), or if the stripes are normal - and this fly is just S. scripta with abnormally dark coloration. On this locality, S. scripta was quite common species, but I didn't see any other specimen with coloration like this.
