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13-08-2009, 03:51 PM
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| | | Hoverfly help needed!
Hello all - this little beauty turned up in my Wolverhampton garden this afternoon and I managed to get one decent shot of her before she left as soon as she had arrived. On consulting Stubbs & Falk, it would seem to be down to either Chrysotoxum festivum or C.vernale – but there's a problem. According to a couple of the keys (the straighter bars on the tergites and brown veining on the wings) it would seem to point to C.vernale rather than the more common C.festivum. But S & F says this about C.vernale: "Little is known about this rarity of south-west England" – which rather clouds the issue, as I live in Wolverhampton. I wonder if anybody out there has any thoughts on this? I'm sure it must be the commoner C.festivum ...   |
13-08-2009, 03:53 PM
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| | | Re: Hoverfly help needed!
I agree - Chrysotoxum festivum
EDIT: Do you have any other shots, dorsals for instance?
Last edited by Jason Green; 13-08-2009 at 03:56 PM.
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13-08-2009, 04:14 PM
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Hi Jason - yes I do have a dorsal shot ...  |
13-08-2009, 05:16 PM
|  | Knight Grand Cross of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: North Yorkshire
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Yes Chrysotoxum festivum |
13-08-2009, 05:34 PM
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Thanks, both - C.festivum it is, then ... | | |
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