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Fly - orange abdomen - Trichopoda
Copyright © 2009 Tim Lethbridge

Fly - orange abdomen - Trichopoda
Lake Placid - Archbold Biological Station, Highlands County, Florida, USA
March 27, 2009
This fly did not light for long and I did not get any great photos, this is the best of the lot.
Contributed by Tim Lethbridge on 27 March, 2009 - 9:27pm

Genus Trichopoda
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… John Schneider, 27 March, 2009 - 10:16pm

 
Thank you
John! I will leave this in ID Request for a little bit and see if someone can narrow it down to a species in need of more coverage. Otherwise, since it is not that great a shot and the genus seems well covered, I will frass it.
… Tim Lethbridge, 28 March, 2009 - 8:33am

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