Annotations - happy to help

I see you are not short of suggestions! Here is an article I wrote for determining the sex of hoverflies. It was originally intended for the UK but the principles can be extended beyond; and if you stick to the subfamily Syrphinae there are no exceptions to the general rule outside of a couple in New Zealand!

We’ve done the UK pretty well now, and through the Syrphing Europe project we’ve made some progress on the rest of the continent, but that’s a lot more to do!

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/uk-hoverflies-syrphidae/journal/77595-determining-and-annotating-the-sex-of-hoverflies-in-inat/