Description: Cowden Ponds, Midlothian, Scotland. Following Stubbs & Falk key: Wing without dark cloud; face without projecting hairs; front tarsus unlike "albitarsis group"; eyes hairy; legs partly pale; hind tibia dark; sternites 2-4 dusted = "Proxima group"; female; thoracic dorsum with long pale hairs inclined at 60-80 degrees in centre = C. proxima (spring form). Vernacular names English: Common Thistle-cheilosia Dansk: Tidsel-urtesvirreflue Deutsch: Stämmige-Erzschwebfliege (Stocky Cheilosia) Español: Français: Nederlands: Dofbuik gitje Norsk (bokmål): Tistelblomsterflue (Thistle Flowerfly) Svenska: Tistelörtblomfluga (Thistle Cheilosia). Date: 26 April 2011, 14:22. Source:
Cheilosia proxima (female) - Common Thistle-cheilosia. Author:
S. Rae from Scotland, UK. Camera location
55° 53′ 42.86″ N, 3° 00′ 42.47″ W View all coordinates using:
OpenStreetMap 55.895240; -3.011798.