Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Eristalinus aeneus?

Posted by Rui Andrade on 28-02-2008 22:21
#1
I think this is E. aeneus but I don't know how to differentiate it from other similar species. Can you explain me how to do that?

location: Oporto, Portugal
date: 25/02/2008

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Posted by amalia_raluca on 29-02-2008 08:12
#2
it is indeed E. aeneus and you have here a male, which makes much easy the ID: on the aeneus the eyes meet on frons and on the sepulchralis doesn't.
Amalia

Posted by Rui Andrade on 29-02-2008 22:32
#3
Thank you very much Amalia for your help:)