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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 07, 2008

I took the pict. yesterday. It was feeding on a Heracleaum flower (very interesting plant BTW for many different variety of insects!).
The closest match I could find is Myathropa florea;

http://diptera.info/photogallery.php?photo_id=211

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 07, 2008

other pic.

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 07, 2008

and a last;

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bonitin Gent, Belgium(Zone 8a) Aug 08, 2008

Yes it is! :-))

I got it identified on the diptera site..

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