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PS: I sent this early this afternoon but it seems to have become lost.
Try #2, DW
Dear All, Nov 2, 2006
I have a small Syrphid (my number A1171) that keys out to _Eumerus_,
but M1 does not have an external spur, as required in Nearctic Diptera
couplet 56, and the inflated hind femur (length/width in side view of
~4) has strong spines only along an anteroventral ridge on the distal
1/3 as opposed to also having posteroventral spines near the apex.
The hind tibia is stout and bowed, with the concave side facing the
femur, and is dark brown with a yellow band in the middle that registers
with a yellow band on the mostly brown femur. The first hind tarsomere
is long and inflated relative to the other tarsomeres.
Does any of this ring a bell with anyone ? Is there perhaps a
recently introduced _Eumerus_ that doesn't quite fit the 1987 key ?
Yours truly, Dve Webster, Kentville
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