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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Syrphus » Syrphus torvus
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syrphid - Syrphus torvus
Copyright © 2016 sh11

syrphid - Syrphus torvus
Mississauga, Peel Region, Ontario, Canada
September 16, 2016
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Contributed by sh11 on 17 September, 2016 - 11:49am
Last updated 21 November, 2023 - 6:39pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphus or Parasyrphus or Epistrophe or Eupeodes.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 21 November, 2023 - 6:39pm login or register to post comments

Syrphus torvus ... female
Syrphus torvus ... female
… Bill Dean, 20 November, 2023 - 4:45am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphini.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 15 October, 2016 - 6:48am login or register to post comments

Thinking Syrphus?
Thinking Syrphus?
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 15 October, 2016 - 6:41am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Kelsey-
that looks right to me; I cannot tell whether the eyes are hairy from my photo...
… sh11, 15 October, 2016 - 6:46am login or register to post comments

 
*shrug* Some Syrphus have hai
*shrug* Some Syrphus have hairs, some don't; to me this looks like one of the very similar Syrphus rectus/ribesii/vitripennis, but not certain.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 15 October, 2016 - 6:55am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 20 September, 2016 - 8:36am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you very much
Dr. Ascher!
… sh11, 21 September, 2016 - 7:46am login or register to post comments

Syrphini
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… John S. Ascher, 17 September, 2016 - 12:30pm login or register to post comments

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