Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Our town park: Syrphidae

Posted by Dmitry Gavryushin on 24-06-2006 20:52
#1
June 24, 2006.
Size 9mm.
I seldom pay attention to hoverflies but this one looked quite unfamiliar to me.

Posted by Susan R Walter on 24-06-2006 21:44
#2
I would guess Platycheirus podagratus. The legs are very distinctive in this species, although your photo does not give quite the right view to be sure. The shape of the abdomen and what I can see of the orange spots looks right too. Also antennae uniformly dark.

Posted by Gisela Merkel-Wallner on 25-06-2006 08:07
#3
Hello,

I would say, its a kind of Xylota, X. florum or one ofe the similar species.

Gisela