Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Epistrophe eligans | British Syrphid for ID

Posted by evergestis on 19-05-2018 22:33
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Tony Irwin wrote:
male Epistrophe eligans?

There was such thought -- but I am used to E. eligans with a more shiny thorax. In flight this looked like a dark E. balteatus to me, but when it settled, I saw it was not.
I am not an expert -- is it an E. eligans? Are their males duller and hairier than females?