Posted by tristram on 15-07-2012 19:23
#1
Photo taken near Reading, UK on 2012-07-15.
I think this might be
Chrysotoxum verralli. Can anyone confirm or refute this?
Edited by tristram on 07-08-2012 18:59
Posted by Chris Webster on 28-07-2012 21:22
#2
From the shape of the black front margins of tergites 2 and 3, this is
Chrysotoxum verralli, rather than
C. elegans.
Keys mention the colour of hairs on the scutellum, but it's very hard to decide this character from photos.
I have seen
C. verralli in new places around Reading this year, usually low down in vegetation.