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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Allograpta » Allograpta exotica
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Texas Allograpta exotica? - Allograpta exotica - male
Copyright © 2014 Monica Krancevic

Texas Allograpta exotica? - Allograpta exotica - Male
Lake Jackson, Brazoria County, Texas, USA
December 14, 2014
Size: ~6mm
I thought this matched A. exotica, but no other image has the incomplete yellow band on tergite 2. Is that within the range of "normal" or am I going down the wrong path?

Thanks for any assistance.

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Texas Allograpta exotica? - Allograpta exotica - male Texas Allograpta exotica? - Allograpta exotica - male Texas Allograpta exotica? - Allograpta exotica - male
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Contributed by Monica Krancevic on 15 December, 2014 - 11:00am

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… Bill Dean, 18 January, 2018 - 11:07am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.

Agree with A. exotica despite the band division - definitely Allograpta. On a lark, since you're in a border area, I searched diptera.org for any Allograpta species in Mexico that we don't have in the States; the only one I found was Allograpta mu, which seems rare enough to almost entirely lack documentation on the internet (no specimen photos or info, etc). So I'm comfortable saying A. exotica!
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 15 December, 2014 - 11:14am login or register to post comments

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