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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Microdontinae » Mixogaster
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small red-orange fly with black wings and yellow halteres - Mixogaster
Copyright © 2017 Judy Gallagher

small red-orange fly with black wings and yellow halteres - Mixogaster
Long Pine Key, Everglades National Park, Dade County, Florida, USA
January 10, 2017
I only got a lateral view - sorry
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Contributed by Judy Gallagher on 10 January, 2017 - 10:37pm
Last updated 20 January, 2017 - 10:57am

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 20 January, 2017 - 10:57am login or register to post comments

Syrphidae
Syrphidae -- large basal cells and closed r4+5.
… John F. Carr, 17 January, 2017 - 7:50pm login or register to post comments

 
Not so sure about Syrphidae..
Not so sure about Syrphidae.... looks really odd.....
… Martin Hauser, 18 January, 2017 - 1:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Mixogaster?
Mixogaster, maybe one of the Caribbean species?

Edit: Genus name may be different after the recent revision of Microdontinae (Reemer and Ståhls 2013).
… John F. Carr, 19 January, 2017 - 1:03pm login or register to post comments

 
Good one John.... Did not thi
Good one John.... Did not think of Mixogaster, but always thought that the face looks like a Syrphid... it rather fits well with Mixogaster... Will ask Menno about it!
… Martin Hauser, 19 January, 2017 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Menno agreed with you... it i
Menno agreed with you... it is Mixogaster! Great job John!
… Martin Hauser, 20 January, 2017 - 10:56am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 14 January, 2017 - 9:11am login or register to post comments

Cool
I don't know what it is, but sure is cool looking. I'm sure someone will know.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 11 January, 2017 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

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