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JRsbugs
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: November 2008
Location: Lincoln
Posts: 4,826
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Fri December 19, 2008 5:08pm
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Hi Jason, I think this is Eristalis tenax. The back legs on E. tenax are dark, and the tarsi are black although they are not very visible. I have one which looks much the same as this, some E. tenax do have more orange on the abdomen. The thorax looks like tenax too. E. arbustorum is a much smaller fly with white or whitish lines across the abdomen, and the male does have a sort of double orange mark but the top part is more triangular with a curved joining bit below, and they normally don't meet across the abdomen. Look at diptera.info in Syrphidae for examples.  Janet
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