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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Toxophorinae » Systropodini » Systropus » Systropus angulatus
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wasp - Systropus angulatus
Copyright © 2007 randy newman

wasp - Systropus angulatus
Atlantic Beach, carteret County, North Carolina, USA
August 1, 2007
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Contributed by randy newman on 1 August, 2007 - 1:53pm
Last updated 24 October, 2007 - 2:11pm

Moved
This appears to be S. angulatus. The best feature to separate this from the other eastern species, S. macer, is whether the propleuron (the swollen sclerite on the anterior edge of the thorax) is yellow (S. macer) or black with silvery hairs (S. angulatus). It looks silvery here.


Moved from Systropus.
… Joel Kits, 24 October, 2007 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

Nope...
count the wings...these are flies. Syrphid or Soldier Flies maybe? I'm not good enough with flies to ID just on overall appearance so you'll have to wait for someone that has more experience with them.
… Nick Fensler, 1 August, 2007 - 1:57pm login or register to post comments

 
Well...
definitely not a Syrphid, but the antennae are right for a Stratiomyid.
… Nick Fensler, 1 August, 2007 - 3:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Systropus!
Believe it or not, these are a mating pair of Systropus, which are bee flies in the family Bombyliidae. Great find!
… Eric R. Eaton, 1 August, 2007 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Bee flies, huh...
I would have never thought of these being bee flies!
… Nick Fensler, 1 August, 2007 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

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