<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>It's definitely a <em>Criorhina</em>. Based on the gestalt and enlarged leg it is either <em>Criorhina asilica</em> or <em>Criorhina pachymera. </em>I believe it is the latter.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Kevin</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Francis Gilbert" <Francis.Gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk><br><b>To: </b>syrphidae@nottingham.ac.uk<br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 16, 2016 2:40:33 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[Syrphidae] ID<br><div><br></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span size="2" face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">hi everyone</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span size="2" face="Calibri" data-mce-style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Boudjema Samraoui in Algeria is putting together some checklists of the syrphids there, and has a photo (attached) of a difficult damaged specimen that he has tentatively identified
as a Criorhina. Has anyone anything to say about this?</span></span></p>
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