Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Which Eristalis?
Posted by blowave on 28-11-2009 02:55
#1
Hello :)
Another confusing Eristalis, I only have the one face view but most of the legs can be seen. I've made a closer crop of the face.
It doesn't seem to fit any we have here ;)
Taken on 26th October 2009. Near Lincoln UK.
Janet:)
Posted by blowave on 28-11-2009 02:56
#2
crop
Posted by blowave on 28-11-2009 18:21
#3
I'm now thinking this could be a Helophilus female!:o
The eyes seem a little too close for a female Eristalis, but not the correct shape for a male. The arista I think on male H. pendulus are yellow but not sure what colour they are on a female. The yellow thorax hairs would fit Helophilus, as well as the leg colour.;)
Posted by blowave on 28-11-2009 18:26
#4
Now I think I have it!
Female Myathropa florea.:P:D
Posted by viktor j nilsson on 28-11-2009 20:03
#5
I think you got it right there! :D
Posted by blowave on 28-11-2009 20:19
#6
:D I wonder how many more people were as confused as I was!
I must have know when I took the pic what it was, but who would have thought a Myathropa florea had a face like this? ;)