Thread subject: Diptera.info :: A very strange Xanthogramma

Posted by amalia_raluca on 12-11-2007 18:51
#1
I collected this one in summer, from The Valley Sirinia, Iron Gates Natural Park. It looks very strange to me this Xanthogramma (my first though was X. pedissequum) looking to the yellow markings, which are atypical: the equilateral yellow triangles on the tergite 2 are not so equilateralPfft and the yellow markings of the others tergites are more extensive. I read in Stubbs&Falk about X. p. var. flavipleura but I don't have any other information about.What do you think?

Thanks Amalia

Posted by amalia_raluca on 12-11-2007 18:52
#2
another photo...

Posted by amalia_raluca on 12-11-2007 18:53
#3
and the last one...

Posted by amalia_raluca on 14-11-2007 12:27
#4
no idea? or is the very common X. pedissequum and my eyes betrayed mePfftCool?

Posted by Andre on 14-11-2007 13:28
#5
Identification should be possible with Bradescu Wink
Bradescu, V. (1991) Les Syrphides de Roumanie (Diptera, Syrphidae), Cl?s de d?termination et r?partition. Trav.Mus.Hist. nat. Grigore Antipa, 31: 7-83.

Posted by amalia_raluca on 15-11-2007 13:47
#6
Could it be Xanthogramma dives?an idea that Andre gave it to me...but I don't have keys for it....
Amalia