'IDing party' for some Southwestern Syrphidae
There are currently 978 Syrphidae in the southwestern USA that aren't IDed below supertribe, down from 995 this morning. A few of us have been chipping away together at these for the last week or so, and @trinaroberts had the nice idea of making a journal post for this 'IDing party' to let more people join.
Some guide materials are at https://sites.google.com/view/flyguide/southwest/syrphidae-southwest
Let the fun begin! Let us know in a comment if you're joining so that we can share updates... even a couple IDs here and there count! And of course feel free to tag some of us if you find a particularly challenging or interesting one.
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I'm trying to make a link to exclude larvae but still show observations with unspecified life stage, is that possible? Something like https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?taxon_id=49995&place_id=14%2C50%2C40%2C52%2C9%2C34&lrank=supertribe&without_term_value_id=4,6,7
This is a bit of an experiment, so looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
This is great!! Thanks for putting this together. We can weed through the larva.
In theory I think your filtering should work if you add &without_term_ID=1 to your search string (to specify the annotation group), but... I can't make it do anything except filter out everything with ANY life stage annotation, not just the ones specified. i.e.
... &lrank=supertribe&without_term_id=1&without_term_value_id=4,6,7
filters out observations with life stage = adult as well as larvae and pupae.
OK... aphid-eating larvae (the slug kind found terrestrially) are all in Syrphinae ; rat-tailed maggots and kin are all in Eristalinae ; weird mollusk-like dome creatures found in ant colonies are in Microdontinae. At least that way we can improve the IDs as we go. @upupa-epops has a nice resource at https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/upupa-epops/27363-some-syrphinae-larvae-of-north-america
How exciting!! Looking forward to identifying with you all and thank you for setting this up :)
It looks like we are down to 851 as of when I grabbed the data a little while ago... exciting progress! Plus I know there have been lots of new and confirming IDs and annotations for observations that are still in this group.
767 remaining now, but I've reviewed all of them!
Up to 801 again, but most are larvae... I should consider making a guide to Syrphid larvae.....
Between agriculture and people rearing them there's at least some good information out there on Syrphinae, and certainly some very distinctively different-looking types.
On that note you've probably seen https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/flies-of-the-us-and-canada/journal/44616-larvae-and-pupae-of-north-american-flower-flies
No more need to weed thru the larvae @pcowartrickmanphoto ! (I mean, you still could if you wanted to...)
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