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Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Eristalis tenax?, 0 by wallaby1

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wallaby1 wrote:
This looks right to me but I thought best to confirm it. The marks on the upper abdomen on mine are not well defined but I think they can vary. Legs, thorax hair colour etc look to match.

http://www.gardensafari.net/english/picpages/eristalis_tenax...

I found a key for Eristalis which to me sounds a bit like double dutch.

http://home.hccnet.nl/mp.van.veen/KEYS/Eristalis/eristkey.ht...

Eyes wide apart would be a female.