Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Melanostoma ID?

Posted by ehaefele on 06-11-2020 12:25
#1

One more photo from a Melanostoma from a buckwheat field in July in Germany.

Is it maybe Melanosotma mellinum or scalare?

Thank you!

Edited by ehaefele on 06-11-2020 12:27

Posted by eklans on 06-11-2020 15:48
#2

It's a female M. mellinum: face shiny, not dusted and the yellow patches on the tergites 3 & 4 are apically rounded. (Fotogids ZWEEFVLIEGEN, André Schulten)


Greetings, Eric