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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Melangyna? --> Parasyrphus punctulatus

Posted by Juergen Peters on 18-04-2008 22:59

Hello!

A 7-8 mm male from a sloe hedge yesterday (northwest Germany). Melangyna species?

Edited by Juergen Peters on 19-04-2008 16:13

Posted by Juergen Peters on 18-04-2008 23:00

Another picture.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 18-04-2008 23:00

Third photo.

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 19-04-2008 15:17

I think it's again Parasyrphus punctulatus.

Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-04-2008 16:13

Stephane Lebrun wrote:
I think it's again Parasyrphus punctulatus.

Ah, with more white markings... Thanks, Stephane!

Posted by Dieter on 19-04-2008 21:17

This is a very fresh specimen with the colours still not fully developed. The differences in the shade of the colours are without taxonomic meaning.

Regards,
Dieter

Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-04-2008 21:29

Dieter wrote:
This is a very fresh specimen with the colours still not fully developed. The differences in the shade of the colours are without taxonomic meaning.

Thanks, Dieter! Maybe laymen like me lay too much weight in colours and other easily visible attributes... But after hundreds of white marked Scaeva pyrastri I was happy, when I found my first S. selenitica here.