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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Eristalini » Helophilina » Mallota » Mallota posticata
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Bumblebee mimic - Mallota posticata
Copyright © 2007 Ilona L.

Bumblebee mimic - Mallota posticata
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
May 31, 2007
This fly really fooled me when I took the photo. I thought it was a bumb*lebee but when I could look at the photo more carefully on the computer I saw it was a fly. It was the size of a bumb*lebee.
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 1 June, 2007 - 1:50pm
Last updated 5 November, 2014 - 10:37pm

Moved
Moved from Mallota.
… Martin Hauser, 5 November, 2014 - 9:12pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Narcissus bulb fly.
… Ilona L., 4 July, 2007 - 2:19am login or register to post comments

Ilona,
we posted something similar but without the yellow abdomen and it was identified as a Mallota species. We're guessing that's what you have here since this doesn't look like the images under Merodon. See what you think.
… john and jane balaban, 3 July, 2007 - 5:01pm login or register to post comments

 
I agree that it looks like it
I agree that it looks like it would be a Mallota species. It's really not a very good photo because it is hard to see the details on the wings. The hind legs look large which is one of the characteristics of the Mallota species.
… Ilona L., 4 July, 2007 - 2:21am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Merodon.
… Ilona L., 5 June, 2007 - 2:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Ilona L., 5 June, 2007 - 2:00am login or register to post comments

Perhaps
It looks like Merodon.
… Beatriz Moisset, 4 June, 2007 - 6:07pm login or register to post comments

Eristalis sp.?
.
… Adalbert Goertz, 2 June, 2007 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

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