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Flower Fly or Bee Fly - Pterallastes thoracicus
Copyright © 2004 Bill Johnson

Flower Fly or Bee Fly - Pterallastes thoracicus
Media, Pennsylvania, USA
September 15, 2004
This was flying around with Syrphid flies and other bees. Is it a Syrphid or is it in the Bee Fly family?
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Contributed by Bill Johnson on 22 January, 2005 - 2:13pm
Last updated 24 May, 2006 - 10:22pm

With the densly dusted thorax
With the densly dusted thorax and the black abdomen, I'm sure it is a female of Pterallastes thoracicus Loew 1863
… Martin Hauser, 31 January, 2006 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

Brachypalpus sp.
This one remembers me of the european genus of Brachypalpus!
There is a picture of a male specimen that looks like it in the unidentified syrphids. That one was a male, this is a female.
Greetings,
Gerard pennards
… Gerard Pennards, 20 February, 2005 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

Syrphid
Definitely a syrphid fly. It resembles European Merodon but it must be something else because it is not the single Merodon species that was imported from Europe to North America.

Paul

http://www.diptera.info
… Paul Beuk, 24 January, 2005 - 3:26am login or register to post comments

 
Not Merodon
Not Merodon, but can I recall the correct genus? Of course not:-) A-a-a-a-ck! Overload!
… Eric R. Eaton, 24 January, 2005 - 3:26pm login or register to post comments

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