Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Flying Syrphidae

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 02-07-2006 20:57
#1
Moscow, 02 june, 8-9mm

Posted by Xespok on 02-07-2006 22:26
#2
This looks like a female Episyrphus balteatus.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 03-07-2006 17:54
#3
Thank you Xespok.
I checked images available in i-net, colour patterns are variable. There is only one possible species?
Nikita

Posted by Susan R Walter on 03-07-2006 19:23
#4
Nikita

There is indeed only one possible species with this pattern of double black bands on tergites 3 and 4. E balteatus is the most commonly recorded hoverfly in the UK, and I imagine it is similarly common over most of Europe. It is extremely variable, both in the heaviness of the black bands and the brightness of the orange.

Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 03-07-2006 20:55
#5
Thank you Susan.