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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Milesiini » Xylotina » Chalcosyrphus » subgenus Xylotomima (Chalcosyrphus subgenus Xylotomima) » Chalcosyrphus chalybeus
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Blue-black syrphid? - Chalcosyrphus chalybeus
Copyright © 2007 john and jane balaban

Blue-black syrphid? - Chalcosyrphus chalybeus
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 6, 2007
Size: ~11mm
We found this interesting blue black syrphid-like fly resting on a log. It would flick its wings like a spider wasp. It may have been ovipositing in the log?? but we're not even sure what gender it is. Related to Robin's 9154?
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 9 June, 2007 - 5:38pm
Last updated 8 June, 2013 - 4:44pm

Moved
Moved from Chalcosyrphus.
… Martin Hauser, 8 June, 2013 - 4:44pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… john and jane balaban, 9 June, 2007 - 10:07pm login or register to post comments

yes
looks like Chalcosyrphus to me, too
… Keith Bayless, 9 June, 2007 - 9:40pm login or register to post comments

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