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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Milesiini » Criorhinina » Criorhina » Criorhina villosa
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Fly - Criorhina villosa - female
Copyright © 2017 Sheryl Pollock

Fly - Criorhina villosa - Female
Riverbend Regional Park, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
February 23, 2017
Size: rather large
Syrphid Fly?
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Contributed by Sheryl Pollock on 26 February, 2017 - 2:22pm
Last updated 28 February, 2017 - 11:49am

Request to use photo in our hover fly field guide
Sorry to contact you through BugGuide but the email address I have for you didn’t work. We are finishing work on a field guide to hover flies of northeastern North America (http://www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphidae/Syrphidae.htm) that will be published later this year and would like to use this image if possible. Please contact me at jhskevington@gmail.com to let me know if this is possible or not. I can send you more details about the book via email, allow you access to a pdf draft copy of the guide and offer you a copy of the guide when it is published. Thanks for considering this request! Jeff Skevington
… Jeff Skevington, 14 April, 2018 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

Wow!
Fantastic find!

One of the rarest and poorest known of the Nearctic Syrphidae. Only 4 specimens have been collected since 1930.

This is the first ever live photograph of this species!

If possible do you remember exact coordinates within the park?
… Kevin Moran, 28 February, 2017 - 11:49am login or register to post comments

 
location
Lat: 39* 01' 16" N Long: 77* 14'42" W (approximately) It is upstream from the visitor center around 300-400 feet. The river is lined with Silver Maples that are several hundred years old. And there are wet depressions in the bottom land nearby.
… Sheryl Pollock, 20 March, 2017 - 3:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Martin Hauser, 26 February, 2017 - 3:23pm login or register to post comments

Merapioidus villosus
Merapioidus villosus
… Bill Dean, 26 February, 2017 - 3:18pm login or register to post comments

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