Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Help with ID - syrphidae?

Posted by Mirex on 01-09-2014 14:34
#1
Could anyone identify the species shown on the attached picture? The photo was taken in Préfailles (Dept. Loire Atlantique, France) on a meadow about 400 m from the Atlantic Ocean shore on 09.08.2014. Thanks!

Posted by ValerioW on 01-09-2014 16:24
#2
It's a Xylota. Got some photo where is it possible to check tergites' colour?

Posted by ValerioW on 01-09-2014 16:31
#3
It seems that abdomen, below wings, is somehow red, and legs are like those from ignava .

Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 01-09-2014 18:11
#4
The strong spine-like bristles beneath f3 are these of Xylota segnis.

Posted by ValerioW on 01-09-2014 19:13
#5
Stephane Lebrun wrote:
The strong spine-like bristles beneath f3 are these of Xylota segnis.



Take care on tibiae 1 and 2, there're no broad black rings (even incomplete), segnis should have them. But it seems that those bristles are quite specific for segnis.
Edited by ValerioW on 01-09-2014 19:27