Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Merodon?

Posted by Isidro on 30-06-2013 14:48
#1
This beautiful fly was found yesterday in high Pyrenees, in the limit bewteen France and Spain, in alpine pastures. The size is as an Eristalis arbustorum.
Please help with ID!
Thanks!

Posted by Isidro on 02-07-2013 15:26
#2
Frown
helloooo? where is everybody? van Eck?

Posted by Paul Beuk on 02-07-2013 16:17
#3
It looks a kind of rufus but whetehr it is that species, too?

Posted by Fred Fly on 02-07-2013 17:40
#4
I would say habitus and habitat is Merodon unicolor Strobl in Czerny & Strobl, 1909. Frequent in Pyrenees. Please compare the key in the download section too.
Regards
Piet

Posted by Isidro on 07-07-2013 07:50
#5
Thanks a lot everybody. I compared Merodon rufus and M. unicolor and clearly the male of the latter species is very similar to mine while rufus is not identical. I will put this name unless somebody tell me the contrary,