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24-07-2008, 07:35 AM
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| | | Wasp-mimicking hoverfly
Can anyone tell me what this is please? I thought as a wasp mimic it would be Eupeodes, or possibly Chrysotoxum, but I found nothing in the gallery or Chinery that had quite the same yellow legs, for example - the nearest was a picture of Eupeodes nitens, but it didn't have the black stripe on the face.  |
24-07-2008, 08:10 AM
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| | | Re: Wasp-mimicking hoverfly
Xanthogramma pedissequum
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24-07-2008, 08:29 AM
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| | | Re: Wasp-mimicking hoverfly
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Dogghound wrote: Xanthogramma pedissequum | Thank you! That certainly looks like it. However none of the pictures I've seen have the black facial stripe, which was very marked on my beasty - is that a standard variation? |
24-07-2008, 06:53 PM
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| | | Re: Wasp-mimicking hoverfly
Its due it being a female, the pictures your seeing are males.
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25-07-2008, 08:49 AM
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Ah! Thank you very much.  | | |
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