This hoverfly was seen while looking for Southern Migrant Hawkers at Whitecross Green Wood. Many thanks to John Bloomfield who advises that "it is probably a male (eyes meet at the top of the head) of the genus Syrphus. If it is, then identifying males to species level is not possible without microscopic examination. Another possibility is the related Epistrope genus, but again many of these can only be separated to species level by microscopic examination (eg of hair colour on scutellum)"
Stephen Burch
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| Hoverfly probably of genus Syrohus. © Stephen Burch |
Common Banded Hoverfly Syrphus ribesii
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