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Syrphidae for identification please!
Isidro
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 Pinned specimen of striking-looking syrphid, no data about location, in a museum of natural history in Bonn, Germany (Museum König). ID needed please!
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 It's a male Chalcosyrphus sp., one of the red legged species
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 Thanks! Then looks like that it's probably an European species, I guess?
 
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 Well, it also could be Nearctic, there are also species like this...
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 Huh! I see that there are a lot of similar species! Chalcosyrphis valgus, femoratus, curvaria... There is no way of distinguish them?
 
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 Of course they are identifiable, but it would help to know where it's from.....
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