Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Merodon ID, please

Posted by treebeard on 16-04-2017 10:04
#1
Can anybody help me to identify this older picture?

Slovakia, Carpathians, Great Fatra mts., 550 m.a.s.l., 21 June 2015

Thank you in advance

Posted by treebeard on 16-04-2017 10:04
#2
one more picture

Posted by treebeard on 16-04-2017 10:07
#3
and one more

habitat: valey. small opening in beech-fir-spruce forest, near village, limestone area

Posted by piros on 16-04-2017 10:49
#4
Merodon nigritarsis (female)?

Greetings,
Henrik
Edited by piros on 16-04-2017 10:49

Posted by treebeard on 16-04-2017 11:43
#5
Thank you very much,

the species you suggested is not in Slovak checklist, and I am not sure about its host plant (StN suggestHhyacynthus and Muscari - maybe in the gardens in the village?).

Your suggestion matches some pictures on the web.

What do you thing abut Merodon rufus? Thats the species I keyed out using M.P.Veen key, howvever, it is incomplete.

best regards

Matej

Posted by piros on 16-04-2017 12:23
#6
Yes, I think you are right!