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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Syrphus » Syrphus knabi
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which syrphid am I? - Syrphus knabi - female
Copyright © 2018 A.D.Levine

which syrphid am I? - Syrphus knabi - Female
goshen, Orange County, New York, USA
June 24, 2018
I can't locate my guide to syrphid ID that i know was made available on bug guide. I would appreciate a link to that guide if any of you know its location.
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Contributed by A.D.Levine on 24 June, 2018 - 9:20am
Last updated 24 June, 2018 - 2:37pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

Did you mean to leave the locality as 'g'?

Perhaps the guide you're thinking of is the key to the genera of Nearctic Syrphidae? It's here: http://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/mylmst_23/mylmst_23_1.HTM
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 24 June, 2018 - 2:25pm login or register to post comments

 
reference citation
thank you. The reference you cited is very helpful however I was thinking of a page submitted some years ago by BugGuides Martin Hauser that simplified the choices and gave images of each group. I printed it and just cant find it now.


Thank you for pointing out that the location g is really Goshen. I've made the correction.

I'm ashamed of my carelessness and forgetfulness.
… A.D.Levine, 24 June, 2018 - 3:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Oh goodness, that would be a
Oh goodness, that would be a lovely resource to have at hand! I've never seen it but man would it be nice. Thanks for letting me know, I might poke Martin and see if he's willing to dig it up.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 24 June, 2018 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

Syrphus knabi
Syrphus knabi .... female.
Superb picture.
Frons shining yellow to antennae with two black spots above the antennae. Thorax with dorsal stripes long, reaching almost to scutellum and thorax yellow at sides above the wings.
Yellow markings on tergites 3 and 4 BROADLY overlapping side margins.
Hind metatarsus orange.
… Bill Dean, 24 June, 2018 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

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