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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Brachypalpus femorata

Diptera 05a - Brachypalpus femorata Diptera 05b - Brachypalpus femorata Syrphid Fly - Brachypalpus femorata - female Syrphid Fly- Brachypalpus femorata Wing - Brachypalpus femorata - male Syrphid Fly- Brachypalpus femorata - head - Brachypalpus femorata - male Bee or fly? - Brachypalpus femorata fly - Brachypalpus femorata black fly - Brachypalpus femorata
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Aschiza")
Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)
Subfamily Eristalinae
Tribe Milesiini
Subtribe Xylotina
Genus Brachypalpus
No Taxon (subgenus Crioprora)
Species femorata (Brachypalpus femorata)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Crioprora femorata
Explanation of Names
Brachypalpus femorata Williston 1882
Identification
Note yellowish pile on the thorax combined with black pile on the pleurae; yellowish pile rather than reddish as in B. alopex. Males always shortly holoptic.
Range
Western North America
Remarks
Likely a complex of several species.