Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Icelandic Syrphus torvus 2

Posted by sbushes on 23-05-2023 17:13
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Follow-up to other post, to see if this shows the femur coloration necessary for triple-checking?

Observed Reykjavik 22nd May 2023

Presumed to be S.torvus as with the other... but markings noted as being irregular

Other post here
https://diptera.i..._id=109874

iNaturalist listing
https://www.inatu.../163168857


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Edited by sbushes on 23-05-2023 17:19

Posted by sbushes on 23-05-2023 17:14
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Posted by sbushes on 23-05-2023 17:15
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Posted by sbushes on 23-05-2023 17:15
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Posted by sbushes on 23-05-2023 17:17
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Edited by sbushes on 23-05-2023 17:17

Posted by sbushes on 23-05-2023 17:20
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Correctly showing femur 3 basal 3/4 black?
( not sure quite what the adpressed hairs look like or if they should be visible )

Posted by eklans on 23-05-2023 17:51
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Clearly ¾ - the alternative, S. vitripennis, has only black.
And to be honest, I also have never seen the adpressed hairs on my photos... In my opinion - based on van Veen's key - your fly is S. torvus!

Posted by Karsten Thomsen on 23-05-2023 22:13
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Incredibly dark specimen.

Posted by sbushes on 23-05-2023 23:02
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Repeating what I stated on the parallel thread for clarity :

...other observations of hoverflies in Iceland have been noted as being dark on iNaturalist. When I raised this with Erling Olafsson at the National Institute here, he said it was very typical for Icelandic specimens that they would be darker than their continental equivalents.