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Toxomerus? syrphid fly - Melanostoma mellinum

Toxomerus? syrphid fly - Melanostoma mellinum
Harper-Rector Woods Nature Preserve, Fulton County, Illinois, USA
April 18, 2017
Found this syrphid fly visiting buttercup within the wet-mesic bottomland forest along the Spoon River.

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Melanostoma mellinum
Melanostoma mellinum ...... female.
There is only one Melanostoma species on the Nearctic Checklist but more than one species may be involved. At present they are being placed in mellinum.

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