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Photo#1248507
Fly with orange abdomen on Queen Anne's Lace - Trichopoda

Fly with orange abdomen on Queen Anne's Lace - Trichopoda
North Judson, Starke County, Indiana, USA
June 29, 2016
Size: medium
Photographed feeding on Queen Anne's Lace (Daucus carota), a tolerated weed in a mostly native sand prairie garden. My guess is Trichopoda pennipes.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

at least the fly formerly known as
Trichopoda pennipes
The editors have been leaving them at Subgenus Galactomyia in anticipation of a revision of the taxonomy

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