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Hi Robert,

I’m sure you like challenges. If not, you would not identify hoverflies. And the Cheilosia is not the easiest genus. In this case, I can look at a specimen at various angles; you only have not too sharp pictures.:)

C. laticornis would be great and the first for Denmark. I checked my female with the description in the Swedish book “Nationalnyckeln”. Some features fit the description, for instance a third antennal segment with dark rim at the end and top. However, there are 5 black bristles (one broken off) and a few yellow ones. There are hardly any black hairs on tergites 3 and 4.

Sternite 2 has long light hairs.

Maybe it is impossible to identify this specimen.

Br
Lei