Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Small and shiny

Posted by Josef Buecker on 05-01-2011 11:11
#1

Hello Forum,
is it a Syrphidae? Is a closer ID possible? I took the picture in Hagen, NRW, Germany, on September 2nd 2010, in the near of an extended beech forest, 150msm
Best regards, Josef

Posted by Juergen Peters on 06-01-2011 00:25
#2

Hello, Josef!

Looks like a Melanostoma female to me, M. mellinum or scalare (which I would prefer). But wait for the experts...

Posted by Jason G on 06-01-2011 00:57
#3

Melanostoma would be my thought too.