Helophilus pendulus

All the pictures here are of a female. The important identification features:

• twin, bold yellow stripes on the thorax;
  
• black stripe down the middle of the yellow 'face';
  
• yellow hind margin to tergites 3 and 4 (near abdomen tip);
  
• hind femur third to half pale and hind tibia half or more yellow;
  

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Nikon CP995

Helophilus key