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  • Steven Falk: “A brightly banded hoverfly that can be conspicuous on the flowers of umbellifers (especially Angelica) and thistles in woodlands and wetlands in late summer. It often hovers immediately beside such flowers, and may even feed whilst hovering, which is unusual behaviour for syrphids. The robust build and particularly straight and broad yellow bands (which extend fully to the side margins of the abdomen), combined with a rather dull thorax, create a distinctive jizz in the field. The larvae are aphidophagous and have been found on Sycamore foliage in Britain, also on Winter Wheat abroad.”
    Epistrophe grossulare_Shetland_3447.jpg
  • Sphaerophoria scripta_Long Hoverfly_...jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Marmalade Hover...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_P5300308.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_hoverfly_P53001...jpg
  • Hoverfly_Sericomyia silentis_Bog Hov...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_Shetland_7148.jpg
  • Episyrphus grossulare_Hoverfly_7405.jpg
  • Eristalis pertinax_Hoverfly_Lerwick_...jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Hoverfly_Shetand_7...jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Hoverfly_Mating_Le...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Hoverfly_Shetland_57...jpg
  • Volucella pellucens_Hoverfly_1527.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Hoverfly_Lerwick_She...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Hoverfly_Shetland_7167.jpg
  • Platycheirus podagratus_1st Shetland...jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly_1628.jpg
  • Volucella pellucens_Hoverfly_1522.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Hoverfly_Geosette...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Hoverfly_Diptera_...jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly_1483.jpg
  • Myathropa florea_Hoverfly_1563.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_hoverfly_Brow Lo...jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Platycheirus albimanus_Hoverfly_Shet...jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Hoverfly_Shetl...jpg
  • Chrysotoxum bicinctum_Hoverfly_Essex...jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Hoverfly_76...jpg
  • Sericomyia silentis_Hoverfly_Shetlan...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Hoverfly_0655.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_hoverfly_Lerw...jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_hoverfly_Brow Lo...jpg
  • Xylota segnis_female_hoverfly_2697.jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Marmalade Hover...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_hoverfly_Shetland...jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_4938.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4614.jpg
  • Episyrphus balteatus_Lerwick_9796.jpg
  • Platycheirus manicatus_Lerwick_4616.jpg
  • Sericomyia lappona_Shetland_0325.jpg
  • Xanthogramma pedissequum_6696.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus mating_Lerwick_4...jpg
  • Xanthogramma pedissequum_7167.jpg
  • Epistrophe grossulare_7677.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Shetland_5900.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4932.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_P5300195.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Shetland_6079.jpg
  • Lejogaster metallina_Geosetter_Shetl...jpg
  • Merodon equestris_4822.jpg
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus_Lerwick_9440.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5865.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Lerwick_4589.jpg
  • Xylota segnis_Lerwick_4594.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Lerwick_9943.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Lerwick_9809.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5785.jpg
  • Platycheirus podagratus_1st Shetland...jpg
  • Steven Flaks: "A large, long-winged relative of Melanostoma, with very distinctive abdominal markings in both sexes (which are patterned rather differently to one-another as in Melanostoma). This is a strongly migratory species that may be starting to overwinter in Britain judging by some recent spring records, but with the British population clearly reinforced by immigration. The adults are most typically encountered at woodland edge and in scrubby habitats. The larvae are predators of semi-gregarious micro-moths on shrubs and certain herbs.”
    Xanthandrus comtus_Shetland_0977.jpg
  • Aberrant Syrphus sp_2404.jpg
  • Eristalis pertinax_0023.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_0018.jpg
  • (S.Falks quote) The 'Lesser Bulb-fly', a common pest of bulbs (especially daffodils) in many gardens and suburban areas, but relatively scarce in the wider countryside compared with the very similiar E. strigatus.<br />
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Males of E. funeralis are readily separable from those of strigatus by checking the underside of the hind femorae, which have the basal ventral section free of hairs and shining (entirely covered in short hairs in strigatus) and bearing a slight tubercle. Funeralis also averages a little smaller and there are differences in the genitalia (see Stubbs & Falk, 2002).<br />
<br />
Female funeralis is best separated from strigatus by the less heavily dusted frons which has much narrower dusted strips alongside the eye margins. The 3rd antennal segment tends to be rounder and less rhomboid.<br />
<br />
Like Merodon equestris, this species appears to have been introduced to Britain with imported bulbs from the Continentin recent times and was rare in the early 20th century.
    Eumerus funeralis_Shetland_6754.jpg
  • According to Stephen Falks "A large, long-winged relative of Melanostoma, with very distinctive abdominal markings in both sexes (which are patterned rather differently to one-another as in Melanostoma). This is a strongly migratory species that may be starting to overwinter in Britain judging by some recent spring records, but with the British population clearly reinforced by immigration. The adults are most typically encountered at woodland edge and in scrubby habitats. The larvae are predators of semi-gregarious micro-moths on shrubs and certain herbs."
    Xanthandrus comtus_Shetland_9793.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_8512.jpg
  • Steven Falks: “A large, long-winged relative of Melanostoma, with very distinctive abdominal markings in both sexes (which are patterned rather differently to one-another as in Melanostoma). This is a strongly migratory species that may be starting to overwinter in Britain judging by some recent spring records, but with the British population clearly reinforced by immigration. The adults are most typically encountered at woodland edge and in scrubby habitats. The larvae are predators of semi-gregarious micro-moths on shrubs and certain herbs.”
    Xanthandrus comtus_Shetland_1115.jpg
  • Steven Flaks: “A large, long-winged relative of Melanostoma, with very distinctive abdominal markings in both sexes (which are patterned rather differently to one-another as in Melanostoma). This is a strongly migratory species that may be starting to overwinter in Britain judging by some recent spring records, but with the British population clearly reinforced by immigration. The adults are most typically encountered at woodland edge and in scrubby habitats. The larvae are predators of semi-gregarious micro-moths on shrubs and certain herbs.”
    Xanthandrus comtus_Shetland_1010.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8057.jpg
  • Helophilus pendulus_Shetland_0486.jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_6964.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Shetland_7852.jpg
  • Volucella zonaria_Hoverfly1491.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_5803.jpg
  • Dasysyrphus albostriatus_Shetland_18...jpg
  • Eristalis arbustorum_Shetland_1888.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Shetland_7420.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Lerwick_Shetland_7...jpg
  • Eristais pertinax_4046.jpg
  • Eupeodes latifasciatus_Lerwick_9437.jpg
  • Eupeodes corallae_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_8986.jpg
  • Syrphus torvus or vitripennis_Shetla...jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Shetland_7772.jpg
  • Scaeva pyrastri_Sumburgh Head_P60906...jpg
  • Xyota segnis_2618.jpg
  • Eumerus funeralis_Lerwick_Shetland_9...jpg
  • (S.Falks quote) The 'Lesser Bulb-fly', a common pest of bulbs (especially daffodils) in many gardens and suburban areas, but relatively scarce in the wider countryside compared with the very similiar E. strigatus.<br />
<br />
Males of E. funeralis are readily separable from those of strigatus by checking the underside of the hind femorae, which have the basal ventral section free of hairs and shining (entirely covered in short hairs in strigatus) and bearing a slight tubercle. Funeralis also averages a little smaller and there are differences in the genitalia (see Stubbs & Falk, 2002).<br />
<br />
Female funeralis is best separated from strigatus by the less heavily dusted frons which has much narrower dusted strips alongside the eye margins. The 3rd antennal segment tends to be rounder and less rhomboid.<br />
<br />
Like Merodon equestris, this species appears to have been introduced to Britain with imported bulbs from the Continentin recent times and was rare in the early 20th century.
    Eumerus funeralis_Shetland_5636.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_Shetland_7817.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8083.jpg
  • Meliscaeva auricollis_Shetland_8515.jpg
  • Steven Falks: “A large, long-winged relative of Melanostoma, with very distinctive abdominal markings in both sexes (which are patterned rather differently to one-another as in Melanostoma). This is a strongly migratory species that may be starting to overwinter in Britain judging by some recent spring records, but with the British population clearly reinforced by immigration. The adults are most typically encountered at woodland edge and in scrubby habitats. The larvae are predators of semi-gregarious micro-moths on shrubs and certain herbs.”
    Xanthandrus comtus_Shetland_0958.jpg
  • Eristals intricaria_Shetland_6199.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Shetland_7359.jpg
  • Rhingia campestris_9919.jpg
  • Syritta pipiens_Shetland_5034.jpg
  • Merodon equestris_Lerwick_Shetland_J...jpg
  • Merodon equestris_2547.jpg
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