Posted by Juergen Peters on 08-05-2016 18:56
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Hello,
I was astonished to see this
Eristalis at a puddle deep in a dark pine forest yesterday (
together with a Helophilus pendulus), northwest Germany. 95% of the now flying
Eristalis are
E. pertinax, the rest
interrupta and
arbustorum (no
tenax at the moment). But this one was neither
pertinax, nor one of the smaller species I think. I was only slightly smaller than a
tenax female.
Unfortunately I could only take pictures from some distance. Is it nevertheless possible to tell the species of the
Eristalis?