Posted by Juergen Peters on 01-06-2026 19:25
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Hello,
a relatively big male
Epistrophe on cow parsley near a small creek (northwest Germany). Although I compared several visible characters (completely yellow legs, yellow 3rd antennae segments, dark aristae, flight period) with "Hoverflies of Britain an north-west Europe" by Bot and Van de Meutter, I did not achieve a definite result. Most similar seems
Epistrophe melanostoma.