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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Scaeva » Scaeva affinis
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Large-ish Syrphid from the Griswold Hills - Scaeva affinis - female
Copyright © 2015 Ken-ichi Ueda

Large-ish Syrphid from the Griswold Hills - Scaeva affinis - Female
Griswold Hills, San Benito County, California, USA
March 8, 2015
I think this was something like 8-10 mm long. Several feeding on flowers just as the sun hit them, on a north-facing slope of arid grassland.
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Contributed by Ken-ichi Ueda on 17 March, 2015 - 1:36am
Last updated 22 April, 2017 - 8:30am

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.

Tricksy fly! This is a melanistic Scaeva pyrastri - you can just barely see the markings on the abdomen. Those, combined with the haired eyes and curved vein, are diagnostic.
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