Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Brachyopa testacea (was dorsata?)

Posted by kurt on 22-05-2010 17:19
#1
Could this Brachyopa with body 5-6 mm be a dorsata? On Anemone nemorosa with Populus and Betula close.

Photo from Norasundet, Ångermanland, Sweden 62.53N 17.45 E 22 may 2010

Thanks for your help in advance

Regards

Kurt Holmqvist
Edited by kurt on 23-05-2010 20:08

Posted by kurt on 22-05-2010 17:19
#2
Aother picture

Posted by kurt on 22-05-2010 17:20
#3
Wing

Posted by kurt on 22-05-2010 17:21
#4
Head and arista

Posted by Gerard Pennards on 23-05-2010 19:34
#5
Arista seems to be long pilose, so dorsata or related is out of the question. It should be Brachyopa testacea or B. obscura, and I think it's a quite fresh specimen of the first.
Greetings

Posted by kurt on 23-05-2010 20:12
#6
Thanks for correcting my choise of species.
I think that the bright and fresh speciemen turns me in wrong direction.
Kurt Holmqvist