Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Another Syrphid seeks an ID.

Posted by Roger Thomason on 27-10-2008 04:51
#1
Photographed in Mid-June in my garden in Mossbank,Shetland Isles.

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 27-10-2008 12:12
#2
It looks like a female Platycheirus, very probably P. scutatus.

Posted by Roger Thomason on 27-10-2008 16:25
#3
Thanks for that Stephane. The guy on my local website had it down as P.albimanus which I thought was wrong.
If this is P.scutatus it is only the second record for Shetland, and the first since June 1993.
Regards Roger :)