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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Eristalini » Eristalina » Drone Flies (Eristalis) » Subgenus Eoseristalis (Eristalis Subgenus Eoseristalis) » Orange-legged Drone Fly (Eristalis flavipes)
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Bee mimic fly visiting sunflower field mid-autumn southwestern Ontario - Eristalis flavipes - female
Copyright © 2015 Andalyne Tofflemire

Bee mimic fly visiting sunflower field mid-autumn southwestern Ontario - Eristalis flavipes - Female
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
October 5, 2015
Size: 2 cm

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Bee mimic fly visiting sunflower field mid-autumn southwestern Ontario - Eristalis flavipes - female Bee mimic fly visiting sunflower field mid-autumn southwestern Ontario - Eristalis flavipes - female
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Contributed by Andalyne Tofflemire on 23 October, 2015 - 7:52pm
Last updated 7 December, 2015 - 10:46am

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.

Cropped and moved to species (Andalyne, only editors can see the full-size images, so we ask contributors to crop to show "just the bug" so everyone can see details easily). E. flavipes indeed, based on orange hind and mid tarsi.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 7 December, 2015 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Ok, gotcha. It was my first time posting to BugGuide, so I'll remember for next time. Thanks for the confirmation of ID.
… Andalyne Tofflemire, 7 December, 2015 - 3:48pm login or register to post comments

 
No problem! re: Narcissus Bu
No problem! re: Narcissus Bulb Fly, check out the visual key here:

http://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/mylmst_23/mylmst_23_15.HTM

You'll see your fly has a closed r1 cell, shown nicely in the key; Eristalis tenax can be told apart by other means, and some nice examples of *some* Eristalis - indeed all of the Ontario species - are here:

http://www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphidae/Eristalis/Eristalis.htm

(his page here

http://www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphidae/speciespages.htm

has photo guides to many of the Ontario syrphid flies)
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 7 December, 2015 - 7:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 25 November, 2015 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

Possible syrphis
I'm wondering if this could be a Narcissus Bulb fly?
… Andalyne Tofflemire, 27 October, 2015 - 9:19pm login or register to post comments

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