Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Help with ID please!
Posted by
jezlee on 21-06-2007 21:04
#1
Can anyone help me with this one, seen yesterday near running water on umbellifer plant (hogweed). Size from memory - perhaps between 5-10mm? many thanks for any help!
#2
Therevidae.
Thereva sp.?
Take photos of frontal face!
#3
It's a male, so the frontal shot will give relatively little additional information.
Posted by
jezlee on 21-06-2007 22:54
#4
Someone has suggested Thereva nobilitata .... is this a possibility?
Posted by
Xespok on 22-06-2007 09:13
#5
T. nobilitata is usually more distinctly yellow and black, this fly seems more greyish. But I do not know how variable T. nobilitata is in this respect. But I think this is a Thereva species.
#6
Looks like
nobilitata to me, but I have to say that I often find
Thereva males very difficult to name, even with specimens
