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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Hi Wouter,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Thank you for your help. Guess this is as far as
we come from only these few pictures, it's more than I could hope
for!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Greetings, André</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, June 11, 2006 11:55 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Syrphidae] Syrphids from Manhattan</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Andre,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The two smaller flies are indeed Toxomerus
geminatus, as they are from the east coast. In the west lives the pretty similar
T. occidentalis. The third picture is an Eupeodes of the americanus group. Both
E. pomus and E. americanus occur in the north-east coast of North
America.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Eristalis could belong to several species
without more detailed description. The Syritta probably will have been a S.
pipiens as this is by far the most common species in North-America.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wouter</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wouter van Steenis<BR>Vogelmelk 4<BR>3621 TP
Breukelen<BR>The Netherlands<BR>+31 (0) 346 264671<BR><A
href="mailto:w.vansteenis@andros.demon.nl">w.vansteenis@andros.demon.nl</A>.
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<A title=a.van.eck@hccnet.nl href="mailto:a.van.eck@hccnet.nl">André van
Eck</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 09, 2006 5:47 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Syrphidae] Syrphids from
Manhattan</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Last week I was in Manhattan, without net
though...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Found some syrphids at a nice little mutual
garden. Any ideas about the species?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>One Eristalis I couldn't get on digit film
(looked like a Eristalis interrupta female, with its unspotted abdomen
and white hindmargins of tergites). Also around was Syritta pipiens (I assume
it is this species).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Friendly greetings, André</FONT></DIV>
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