Posted by Juergen Peters on 18-08-2005 16:14
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Hello, Gerard!
Gerard Pennards wrote:
Nice picture, in my experience they are not so easy to put on a picture.
This is not a Syrphus, but something com[pletely different.
In earlier years it was called Megasyrphus annulipes, but nowadays it belongs in the genus Eriozona.
This is the female of Eriozona erratica!
Nice picture, in my experience they are not so easy to put on a picture.
This is not a Syrphus, but something com[pletely different.
In earlier years it was called Megasyrphus annulipes, but nowadays it belongs in the genus Eriozona.
This is the female of Eriozona erratica!
Thanks, that was my first guess, too. But I was not sure, because I knew this species also with much more yellow stripes (the male even more, nearly orange):
Very different from the other species in this genus, the Eriozona syrphoides!
Look for the differences at my pictures at the French site:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cyrille.dussaix/Eriozona_syrphoides/E.syrphoides_terrain.html
Look for the differences at my pictures at the French site:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cyrille.dussaix/Eriozona_syrphoides/E.syrphoides_terrain.html
That reminds me more of an Eristalis intricaria or male Cheilosia illustrata ;-).
Edited by Juergen Peters on 18-08-2005 16:31