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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Ocyptamus » Ocyptamus antiphates
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Syrphid - Ocyptamus antiphates
Copyright © 2013 Gary R. McClellan

Syrphid - Ocyptamus antiphates
Sarasota County, Florida, USA
December 4, 2013

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Contributed by Gary R. McClellan on 4 December, 2013 - 2:49pm
Last updated 6 August, 2021 - 7:47pm

Moved
Moved from cylindricus species group.
… Zachary Dankowicz, 6 August, 2021 - 7:47pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ocyptamus antiphates.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 3 October, 2014 - 6:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ocyptamus antiphates.
… Martin Hauser, 8 January, 2014 - 7:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ocyptamus.
… Martin Hauser, 8 January, 2014 - 7:27pm login or register to post comments

Ocyptamus antiphates
This is Ocyptamus antiphates which can be found in Florida according to a reference on Systema Dipterorum. The specimen keys out to this in a key to Ocyptamus and it seems this species has a great deal of variation in color.
… Kevin Moran, 8 January, 2014 - 6:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 4 December, 2013 - 10:12pm login or register to post comments

My best guess (and it's just
My best guess (and it's just a guess) is Ocyptamus - in particular, I think I'm seeing the projected margin on the scape on the antenna in this shot.

(edited to add - these remind me of your Ocyptamus here...)
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 4 December, 2013 - 7:25pm login or register to post comments

 
Ocyptamus antiphates
This is likely Ocyptamus antiphates but I will need to check with someone. Do you want me to continue going through all the Ocyptamus spp? I have an unpublished key to all the nearctic species and I know the group pretty well from identifying my specimens.
… Kevin Moran, 3 January, 2014 - 3:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Absolutely! Go ahead and com
Absolutely! Go ahead and comment on them; feel free to equivocate as you like. (I've personally found that contributors like it when I explain the features in the key that led me to an ID, but that's your call)
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 3 January, 2014 - 4:00pm login or register to post comments

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