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Hover Fly... - Toxomerus politus
Copyright © 2007 Andrew Meeds

Hover Fly... - Toxomerus politus
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, USA
August 19, 2007
Size: 1/4 inch
Found on edge of a sewage creek... the creek was mostly dry...
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Contributed by Andrew Meeds on 21 August, 2007 - 8:08pm
Last updated 2 March, 2008 - 8:36am

With a thorax like that, suspect Toxomerus
Yours is T. politus, the least common of what I think is the most common syrphid around.


(The thorax tip isn't fool-proof, but works more often than not.)
… Ron Hemberger, 22 August, 2007 - 7:09pm login or register to post comments

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