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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Syrphus
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Syrphus? - Syrphus - female
Copyright © 2018 Denis A. Doucet

Syrphus? - Syrphus - Female
Caribou Plain Trail, Fundy National Park, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada
September 14, 2013
If Syrphus, then possibly S. knabi? It does seem pretty close to fitting this description:
"Syrphus knabi has the lower frons shining yellow and yellow stripe at sides of dorsum (Sometimes more obvious than other times.) Basal metatarsus orange. Two small black dots above antennae."

While admittedly difficult to see the colour of the basal metatarsus, it does seem lighter than the lower ones.
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Contributed by Denis A. Doucet on 1 April, 2018 - 5:08pm
Last updated 1 April, 2018 - 6:21pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphini.
… Denis A. Doucet, 1 April, 2018 - 6:21pm login or register to post comments

Syrphus knabi female has the
Syrphus knabi female has the lower frons more extensively shining yellow and with isolated black spots above the antennae and the hind femur yellow with a black central band. The mostly black femur would make me think this was vitripennis but would need to check microtrichiae.
Safe in Syrphus.
… Bill Dean, 1 April, 2018 - 5:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Understood.
Many thanks, again.
… Denis A. Doucet, 1 April, 2018 - 6:21pm login or register to post comments

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