Ferdinandea cuprea (Scopoli 1763)

Longitude (deg): -0.9. Latitude (deg): 51.5. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 60' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 40' N. Vice county name: Oxon. Vice county no.: 23. Country: England. Stage: Female imago. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "Female, in Malaise Trap run from 19 Aug to 2 Sept 2001". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Canon EOS10D dSLR and Meiji microscope with x2.5 projection eye-piece. DPI defaulting to 72.

Longitude (deg): -0.9. Latitude (deg): 51.5. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 60' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 40' N. Vice county name: Oxon. Vice county no.: 23. Country: England. Stage: Female imago. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "Female, in Malaise Trap run from 19 Aug to 2 Sept 2001". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Canon EOS10D dSLR and Meiji microscope with x2.5 projection eye-piece. DPI defaulting to 72.

Longitude (deg): -0.9. Latitude (deg): 51.5. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 60' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 40' N. Vice county name: Oxon. Vice county no.: 23. Country: England. Stage: Female imago. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "Female, in Malaise Trap run from 19 Aug to 2 Sept 2001". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 950 held to eye-piece of Olympus VMT stereo-microscope.

Longitude (deg): -0.9. Latitude (deg): 51.5. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 60' W. Latitude (deg/min): 51° 40' N. Vice county name: Oxon. Vice county no.: 23. Country: England. Stage: Female imago. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: "Female, in Malaise Trap run from 19 Aug to 2 Sept 2001". Category: microscope photograph. Image scaling: magnified. Photographic equipment used: Nikon Coolpix 950 held to eye-piece of Olympus VMT stereo-microscope.

Humbie, Scotland, United Kingdom

Stony Cross, England, United Kingdom

characteristics: brassy abdomen ...Phylum: Arthropoda LATREILLE, 1829 (arthropods, Gliederfer)Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816Class: Insecta LINNAEUS, 1758 (insects, Insekten)Subclass: Pterygota LANG, 1888 (Fluginsekten)Infraclass: Neoptera MARTYNOV, 1923Order: Diptera LINNAEUS, 1758 (true flies, mosquitoes and gnats, Fliegen & Mcken)Suborder: Brachycera SCHINER, 1862Infraorder: Muscomorpha [Syn.: Cyclorrhapha]Superfamily: Syrphoidea LATREILLE, 1802Family: Syrphidae SAMOUELLE, 1819 (hoverflies or flower flies?, Schwebfliegen)Subfamily: Eristalinae NEWMAN, 1834Tribus: Rhingiini MEIGEN, 1822Genus: Ferdinandea RONDANI, 1844Ferdinandea cuprea SCOPOLI, 1763 (Gemeine Goldschwebfliege), [det. A. Thornhill, 2016, based on this photo]more info: www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=35449(german): www.natur-in-nrw.de/HTML/Tiere/Insekten/Schwebfliegen/TSW...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinandea_cupreaCentral Germany, N-Hesse: vic. Kassel (Dnche NP) ca. 180-250m asl., 21.05.2015IMG_6390

Peglio, Lombardy, Italy

Peglio, Lombardia, Italia

Peglio, Lombardia, Italia

Peglio, Lombardy, Italy

Cortes de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain

SO973563. WWT Grafton Woods. Worcs