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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-24-657793627 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Dave, On 2-Sep-06, at 10:12 AM, David & Alison Webster wrote: > E. tenax as illustrated in Swann & Papp has a dark, squat > wineglass figure, & distal to this, a thin pale band on visible > tergite 1 and insect length is given as 0.6". I have two numbers > (A212 & A218; 15 mm & 14 mm long respectively) that compare well > with Swan & Papp's illustration. > > In contrast, in the photo taken by Angus, [what is it Jim > Angus' photo or Angus's photo ?] the dark area in tergite 1 is > shaped like a broad vase and has no pale distal band. My A325 has a > similar dark area on tergite 1 and is 10 mm long. > > Based on the above I still lean to Eristalis but rule out E. > tenax and would guess Angus' yellow flower, which I don't > recognize, to be about 25 mm wide. In some situations a specimen is > worth a thousand pictures. We have a large number of specimens of Eristalis tenax at the Museum and they exhibit quite a bit of variation in colouring. Its the only large Eristalis that we have specimens from in NS that is comparable to that pictured in Angus' photo. On the other hand, there is no guarantee that all the specimens we have at the Museum are correctly identified, so it is possible that there is more than one species amongst the material. Cheers! Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. --Apple-Mail-24-657793627 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Dave,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On = 2-Sep-06, at 10:12 AM, David & Alison Webster wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite">=A0=A0 = =A0<I>E. tenax </I>as illustrated in Swann & Papp has a dark, squat = wineglass figure, & distal to this, a thin pale band on visible = tergite 1 and insect length is given as 0.6". I have two numbers (A212 = & A218; 15 mm & 14 mm long respectively) that compare well with = Swan & Papp's illustration. <BR> <BR> =A0=A0=A0 In contrast, in the = photo taken by Angus, [what is it Jim Angus' photo or Angus's photo ?] = the dark area in tergite 1 is shaped like a broad vase and has no pale = distal band. My A325 has a similar dark area on tergite 1 and is 10 mm = long. <BR> <BR> =A0=A0=A0 Based on the above I still lean to = <I>Eristalis</I> but rule out <I>E. tenax</I> and would guess Angus' = yellow flower, which I don't recognize, to be about 25 mm wide. In some = situations a specimen is worth a thousand pictures.=A0<BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span">We have a large number of specimens of = <I>Eristalis tenax</I> at the Museum and they exhibit quite a bit of = variation in colouring. Its the only large <I>Eristalis</I>=A0that we = have specimens from in NS that is=A0comparable=A0to that pictured in = Angus' photo. On the other hand, there is no guarantee that all the = specimens we have at the Museum are correctly identified, so it is = possible that there is more than one species amongst the = material.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers!</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris</DIV><BR><DIV> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT = face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">Christopher Majka = - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History</FONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: = 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Times">1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>B3H 3A6</FONT></P> <P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Times">(902) 424-6435 <SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>Email <<A = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</A>></F= ONT></P> <P style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face=3D"Times"= size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Times">_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._= ._._._.</FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>= --Apple-Mail-24-657793627--
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