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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Eupeodes » subgenus Metasyrphus (Eupeodes subgenus Metasyrphus)
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Fly ID - Eupeodes - female
Copyright © 2006 Naomi Smith

Fly ID - Eupeodes - Female
Pickering, Durham Region, Ontario, Canada
May 15, 2006
Size: 5-7mm
Found on dandelion. Thanks for any help.
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Contributed by Naomi Smith on 21 May, 2006 - 9:48am
Last updated 10 December, 2015 - 11:04am

Moved
Moved from Eupeodes.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 10 December, 2015 - 11:04am login or register to post comments

Subgenus-Metasyrphus
Subgenus-Metasyrphus
… Bill Dean, 8 December, 2015 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

Puzzled
To my untrained eye it looks more like some of the Dasysyrphus in the guide than to Eupeodes, but then again, I don't know much about this.
… Beatriz Moisset, 13 December, 2006 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

 
Confuses me, too.
I'd swear I've seen this somewhere else and hope to find it again.
… Ron Hemberger, 19 October, 2007 - 11:35am login or register to post comments

Yes,
And I think it belongs in the genus Eupeodes, a female.
Greetings,
Gerard Pennards
… Gerard Pennards, 21 May, 2006 - 11:53am login or register to post comments

this
is a Syrphid fly
… Omar Fahmy, 21 May, 2006 - 10:13am login or register to post comments

 
Fly ID
Thanks Gerard and Omar.
Naomi
… Naomi Smith, 30 May, 2006 - 11:38pm login or register to post comments

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