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31-07-2011, 07:30 PM
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| | | Bee (?) with distinctive antennae
at Amwell Nature Reserve today, any IDea?  |
31-07-2011, 07:42 PM
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| | | Re: Bee (?) with distinctive antennae
I suspect that isn't a bee, Toby, but is a hoverfly of the Callicera species. I'm not sure if it is possible to get any further from that camera angle though; and I'm not personally acquainted with this family.
Alternatively Microdon analis might just be possible but I'm doubtful of this.
Perhaps somebody with more experience on this group can comment while I have a think. |
31-07-2011, 08:32 PM
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| | | Re: Bee (?) with distinctive antennae
Quote:
Originally Posted by Geoff F  I suspect that isn't a bee, Toby, but is a hoverfly of the Callicera species. I'm not sure if it is possible to get any further from that camera angle though; and I'm not personally acquainted with this family.
Alternatively Microdon analis might just be possible but I'm doubtful of this.
Perhaps somebody with more experience on this group can comment while I have a think. | Callicera looks right thanks. Only three species one of which mainly in Scotland so someone may know. |
31-07-2011, 08:34 PM
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| | | Re: Bee (?) with distinctive antennae
Love the wicked shape of the antennae 
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31-07-2011, 09:41 PM
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| | | Re: Bee (?) with distinctive antennae
Callicera aurata is really the only one it can be as the other species is extremely rare and found only in East Anglia, but that shouldn't discount it altogether! Considering what is said about it I would, but I recently had Ferdinandea ruficornis which is said to be currently only around the New Forest with some older records elsewhere. Hoverfly Recording Scheme - View topic - Callicera spinolae
I checked the keys for female C. spinolae, they have entirely yellow-orange femora where the femora on yours are mostly black.
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01-08-2011, 12:35 PM
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| | | Re: Bee (?) with distinctive antennae
I would agree that this is C. aurata. It is a really good record of this very elusive fly |
01-08-2011, 06:30 PM
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| | | Re: Bee (?) with distinctive antennae
Just a note of caution for anyone looking at these distinctive antennae. Soldierflies of the Stratiomys family, particularly S. longicornis are rather similar.
But careful examination should soon sort out which is which. As in this case. | | |
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