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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Eristalini » Sericomyiina » Sericomyia » Spot-winged Pond Fly (Sericomyia flagrans)
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- - Sericomyia flagrans - female
Copyright © 2016 Robyn Waayers

- - Sericomyia flagrans - Female
4 miles N. Alta Sierra at base of Sunday Peak, Kern County, California, USA
July 22, 2007
Size: 13 mm
In wet mountain meadow.
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Contributed by Robyn Waayers on 21 May, 2016 - 12:49pm
Last updated 21 May, 2016 - 11:03pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 21 May, 2016 - 4:02pm login or register to post comments

Sericomyia flagrans....... fe
Sericomyia flagrans....... female
… Bill Dean, 21 May, 2016 - 2:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
That's why it didn't seem quite right!
… Robyn Waayers, 21 May, 2016 - 3:26pm login or register to post comments

Seems to resemble...
...Eristalis anthophorina (although those light lateral patches on the abdomen that I see on the images of that species are missing). Will wait for an expert confirmation before moving it (it would be the first data point for California if so).
… Robyn Waayers, 21 May, 2016 - 2:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 21 May, 2016 - 1:21pm login or register to post comments

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