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

wallaby1 wrote:
If you scroll down the page instead of clicking on the link as you stated, it will take you to the same pics. It's only a shortcut and not another page. I hope that's clearer!

I found I had pics of E. tenax female last year and earlier this year, yesterday I was sorting all the Eristalis pics (rainy day like today) giving them numbers with the Genus name so they would be together, I had over 80 plus already named pics!

That looked daunting, but I put some names to many of them, the three I already knew plus some I had a good idea of their ID. I found myself wondering what a certain male was, it took a while to realise it was most likely E. tenax, it must be more shy as some others seem to be present in pairs.

However, I can't be certain that it is, as the dark patch on the face looks broad which would suggest E. pertinax, but it doesn't have yellow tibia on the back legs! The pattern on the abdomen fits. See how difficult it can be!

Here is the handsome man cleaning his tongue,

This message was edited Aug 15, 2007 8:58 PM