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Ginger colored fly - probably Chrysanthrax junctura - Chrysanthrax
Copyright © 2006 Ron Hemberger

Ginger colored fly - probably Chrysanthrax junctura - Chrysanthrax
Caspers Wilderness Park, Orange County, California, USA
June 14, 2006
I'm thinking bee fly, but I'm thinking I'm wrong.

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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 14 June, 2006 - 11:57pm
Last updated 27 November, 2007 - 10:18pm

Moved
Moved from Villini.
… Ron Hemberger, 27 November, 2007 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

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I am pretty sure this is Chrysanthrax junctura, a very common, widespread, medium-sized species always associated with sandy spots. This is tentative; the pictures are a bit fuzzy. It could even be a smokey-winged Paravilla, P. fumida. In Paravilla, the front shins (fore tarsi) are spiny.
… Andy Calderwood, 27 November, 2007 - 2:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Spiny shins
Pretty sure this isn't the case, based on viewing the photos at higher resolution. FYI, like many posts, mine often have more detail than the displayed 560 pixel width reveals. If you were an editor, you could see this, and/or if I had your email address, I could send you files. (Widths on these are around 1100 pixels.)

Any way, not seeing spines points me to Chrysanthrax junctura, yet another new species for Bug Guide.
… Ron Hemberger, 27 November, 2007 - 10:14pm login or register to post comments

 
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One of my favorite bee flies. Just about every place I see them is sandy, or adjacent to it. (Now I try to shoot them feeding and find most on buckwheat.)
… Ron Hemberger, 27 November, 2007 - 9:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bee Flies.
… Joel Kits, 16 April, 2007 - 8:31pm login or register to post comments

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