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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Bacchini » Melanostoma » Melanostoma mellinum
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Syrphid Fly (laying egg) - Melanostoma mellinum - female
Copyright © 2007 Kevin Hall

Syrphid Fly (laying egg) - Melanostoma mellinum - Female
Lacey (near Olympia), Thurston County, Washington, USA
October 27, 2007
Well, I'd read in multiple place on the web that only M. mellina has acid green halteres OR only M. scalare has acid green halteres, and in some places I've read that only males and in other places only females have the green halteres. Well, I can definitely say that the females of one of the Melanostoma species can sport acid green halteres as shown in this sequence. :)

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Contributed by Kevin Hall on 27 October, 2007 - 10:33pm
Last updated 2 December, 2009 - 2:54pm

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