Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Fly with orange legs...

Posted by DerAndereMicha on 06-06-2013 16:28
#1
Hello,

yesterday I found on a inland dune in Berlin a fly with orange legs.
Who can help me to determine the species?

www.KleinesGanzGross.de/archiv/diptera/5721kl_r.jpg

Michael
Edited by DerAndereMicha on 06-06-2013 17:34

Posted by Sundew on 06-06-2013 17:26
#2
Nice to hear from you, but with a pic would still be nicer!
Regards, Sundew

Posted by DerAndereMicha on 06-06-2013 17:37
#3
Sorry, the upload doesn't work.

But now you can see a picture Smile

Michael

Posted by Sundew on 06-06-2013 17:45
#4
Sure, a nice one! Syrphidae, Chalcosyrphus spec. (compare mine in http://www.dipter...d_id=48510). Yours seems to be less hairy on the legs, so perhaps another species. Let us wait for the Syrphidologists Grin.
Edited by Sundew on 06-06-2013 17:46

Posted by DerAndereMicha on 07-06-2013 13:31
#5
Thank you for specifying the genus. Now I have checked the "StN KEYS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF ADULT EUROPEAN SYRPHIDAE". If my photo shows a female, than this is Chalcosyrphus valgus. On another photo you can see the dark brown haltere knob.

Michael
Edited by DerAndereMicha on 07-06-2013 13:39

Posted by Sundew on 09-06-2013 12:13
#6
Thanks for the most valuable key! On the one hand, it enables us to ID not referring mainly to jizz. On the other hand, one learns how many important characters can hardly be seen in a photograph...