Posted by Susan R Walter on 10-03-2007 21:36
#1
I think this is
Sicus ferrugineus, female. Can anyone confirm? 14mm, from 25 June 2006, east London cemetery park.
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 10-03-2007 22:28
#3
Hello Susan,
I think it's Myopa. The part of head under eyes is too important for Sicus.
Regards.
Posted by Susan R Walter on 10-03-2007 23:05
#4
Stephane
I think that might be the angle of the photograph misleading you. The length of the face below the eye is about half the length of the eye. If it was
Myopa, the length of face below the eye would be more than the length of the eye - that is, from what I can ascertain from comparing pictures of the two genera on the web.
I've tried running it through Mark van Veen's online key, and it doesn't really go anywhere in
Myopa.
The face is also very yellow, with tan cheeks, like
S ferrugineus, rather than uniformly almost white like
Myopa dorsalis seems to be. It is in the size range he gives for
M dorsalis though, and bigger than the range for
S ferrugineus.
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 10-03-2007 23:47
#5
Susan wrote :
think that might be the angle of the photograph misleading you
Indeed, your first photograph misled me !
So I would agree with Sicus ferrugineus, but I'm not very familiar with Conopidae. :|
So you can forget my first reply, and perhaps this one too, which is not very helpfull anymore.
;)
Regards.