Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Chrysotoxum ID => Chrysotoxum verralli

Posted by tristram on 15-07-2012 19:23
#1

Photo taken near Reading, UK on 2012-07-15.

I think this might be Chrysotoxum verralli. Can anyone confirm or refute this?

Edited by tristram on 07-08-2012 18:59

Posted by Chris Webster on 28-07-2012 21:22
#2

From the shape of the black front margins of tergites 2 and 3, this is Chrysotoxum verralli, rather than C. elegans.

Keys mention the colour of hairs on the scutellum, but it's very hard to decide this character from photos.

I have seen C. verralli in new places around Reading this year, usually low down in vegetation.

Posted by tristram on 29-07-2012 11:43
#3

Thank you Chris!