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Syrphid (oops, tachinid) with hairy legs - Trichopoda lanipes
Copyright © 2009 James C. Trager

Syrphid (oops, tachinid) with hairy legs - Trichopoda lanipes
Shaw Nature Reserve near Gray Summit, Franklin County, Missouri, USA
October 5, 2009
Size: 10 mm (13 mm across)
On this date, this aster was one of the few things producing nectar and was actively visited by a variety of dipterans and hymenopterans. The brush of hairs on the hind legs was quite striking.

Genus? Male?
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Contributed by James C. Trager on 27 October, 2009 - 4:19pm
Last updated 26 September, 2014 - 11:53pm

Moved
Moved from Feather-legged Flies.
… John S. Ascher, 26 September, 2014 - 11:53pm login or register to post comments

nice macabre fly; no syrphid, though
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… v belov, 27 October, 2009 - 4:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Hah!
Never would have guessed it. I've got a lot to learn about flies.
Thanks!

(Trichopoda -- The name makes sense.)
… James C. Trager, 27 October, 2009 - 4:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice try, James
A lot of flies are easily mistaken for syrphids, and this is arguably the leading candidate. Assuming you can see wing veins, most syrphids are easily IDed by the presence of a spurious vein:
… Ron Hemberger, 27 October, 2009 - 6:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the tip, Ron.
This one has some folds that look spurious-vein-ish, but skimming through the various syrphid images here in which venation can be clearly seen, I can see the difference.
… James C. Trager, 29 October, 2009 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

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