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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Volucellini » Copestylum » vesicularium group (Copestylum vesicularium group) » Iridescent Bromeliad Fly (Copestylum vesicularium)
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Syrphid Fly - Copestylum vesicularium - male
Copyright © 2014 Robert Lord Zimlich

Syrphid Fly - Copestylum vesicularium - Male
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
April 28, 2014

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Syrphid Fly - Copestylum vesicularium - male Syrphid Fly - Copestylum vesicularium - male
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 30 April, 2014 - 6:30pm
Last updated 8 August, 2018 - 1:25pm

Moved
Moved from vesicularium group.
… Martin Hauser, 26 June, 2017 - 9:58am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Copestylum.
… Martin Hauser, 27 February, 2015 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Copestylum.
… Martin Hauser, 12 May, 2014 - 1:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 12 May, 2014 - 1:33pm login or register to post comments

Moved for Expert Review
Moved from ID Request.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 2 May, 2014 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

Syrphid?
Something like this? (yours is male and example is female, I think)

or
… Yurika Alexander, 30 April, 2014 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

 
i think Yu nailed it
awesome shot of a glorious beast, Bob.
… v belov, 30 April, 2014 - 9:19pm login or register to post comments

 
ILB
Who'd thought
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 1 May, 2014 - 8:09am login or register to post comments

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