Thread subject: Diptera.info :: For identify

Posted by Isidro on 29-06-2008 13:52
#1

Yesterday. La Pe?a, Huesca, NE Spain. 500 meters high. Mix of mediterranean and mountain climate. Habitat: in the side of a lake, between the segdes (Phragmites australis), in a company of high numbers of Calopteryx xanthostoma. Size: more or less the same than Episyrphus balteatus.

The picture is not good, the ligh was in a wrong angle and the photo results very darkened. But you can see the stair design in the abdomen.

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What can be?

Thanks.

Posted by Susan R Walter on 29-06-2008 17:21
#2

Meliscaeva auricollis?

Posted by Chris Webster on 29-06-2008 21:50
#3

Or it could be a Platycheirus, such as P.fulviventris for instance.

Posted by Isidro on 30-06-2008 05:53
#4

Thanks to both. I let it as Platycheirus then...?

Posted by Andre on 30-06-2008 08:34
#5

My first and second guess: Platycheirus scambus and fulviventris :)

Posted by Isidro on 30-06-2008 13:27
#6

Thanks.