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I think this is Sicus ferrugineus, female. Can anyone confirm? 14mm, from 25 June 2006, east London cemetery park.

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Another view.

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Hello Susan,
I think it's Myopa. The part of head under eyes is too important for Sicus.

Regards.

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Stephane

I think that might be the angle of the photograph misleading you. The length of the face below the eye is about half the length of the eye. If it was Myopa, the length of face below the eye would be more than the length of the eye - that is, from what I can ascertain from comparing pictures of the two genera on the web.

I've tried running it through Mark van Veen's online key, and it doesn't really go anywhere in Myopa.

The face is also very yellow, with tan cheeks, like S ferrugineus, rather than uniformly almost white like Myopa dorsalis seems to be. It is in the size range he gives for M dorsalis though, and bigger than the range for S ferrugineus.

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Susan wrote :


Indeed, your first photograph misled me !
So I would agree with Sicus ferrugineus, but I'm not very familiar with Conopidae.

So you can forget my first reply, and perhaps this one too, which is not very helpfull anymore.

Regards.