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Subfamily Microdontinae

Laetodon · Microdon · Mixogaster · Rhopalosyrphus

Genus Laetodon
Please help us to identify this guy. - Laetodon Small little fly - Laetodon Small little fly - Laetodon Fly with reddish metallic abdomen - Laetodon laetus dorsal - Laetodon laetus Shiny fly - Laetodon Shiny fly - Laetodon Microdon - Laetodon

Genus Microdon
large metallic fly - Microdon fulgens Syrphid - Microdon Fly ? - Microdon - male - female small brown soldier fly - Microdon Is this microdon!? - Microdon Microdon ruficrus - male Fly (unknown)14 - Microdon Microdon abditus? - Microdon abditus

Genus Mixogaster
Mixogaster breviventris Mixogaster breviventris Mixogaster breviventris I think Mixogaster sp. - Mixogaster I think Mixogaster sp. - Mixogaster Mixogaster - Mixogaster fattigi Mixogaster fattigi? - Mixogaster fattigi - female Mixogaster fattigi? - Mixogaster fattigi - female

Genus Rhopalosyrphus
Syrphid? - Rhopalosyrphus guentherii Hover Fly - Rhopalosyrphus ramulorum - male Syrphid Fly - Rhopalosyrphus ramulorum - male Hover Fly - Rhopalosyrphus ramulorum - male Hover Fly - Rhopalosyrphus ramulorum - male Syrphid Fly - Rhopalosyrphus guentherii - male Diptera - Conopidae? - Rhopalosyrphus guentherii Rhopalosyrphus guentherii? - Rhopalosyrphus guentherii


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