Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Help id, please

Posted by Eugene K on 13-03-2018 21:25
#1

2017.07.20 find this on leaf of Chamerion angustifolium
Russia, Novgorod region.
I see only, this is diptera larva.
Is it possible to determine this more accurately?

Posted by Tony Irwin on 14-03-2018 01:15
#2

This looks like a Xanthandrus larva, which is a known caterpillar predator

Posted by Eugene K on 14-03-2018 12:03
#3

Tony, thank you, this really looks alike the photos in net. I have never met this genus of Syrphidae, but such larva I met only once, too. Perhaps, it is not a common fly im my region. Thank you else once.

Posted by Eugene K on 14-03-2018 12:16
#4

Perhaps, I'm mistaken. In my Syrphidae folder I find now one not id fly. Tell me, please, may be it is Xanthandrus?

Edited by Eugene K on 14-03-2018 12:18

Posted by Tony Irwin on 14-03-2018 13:23
#5

I don't think this is Xanthandrus - more like a Melanostoma female

Posted by Eugene K on 14-03-2018 16:05
#6

Tony, thank you.