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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Asiloidea » Bee Flies (Bombyliidae) » Bombyliinae » Bombyliini » Systoechus » Systoechus vulgaris
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Bee Fly - Systoechus vulgaris
Copyright © 2018 Steve McKechnie

Bee Fly - Systoechus vulgaris
White Fox, Torch River, Saskatchewan, Canada
July 27, 2018
Visited a potted plant on my back deck.
Colour, wing venation, triangular head points me to Systoechus vulgaris.
Systoechus vulgaris Distribution - South central Canada
and the United States (Map 180)
Key to the Systoechus species of Ontario and
eastern Canada

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Contributed by Steve McKechnie on 28 July, 2018 - 9:31am
Last updated 3 December, 2018 - 11:54pm

Moved
Moved from Bombyliinae.
… John S. Ascher, 3 December, 2018 - 11:54pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bee Flies.
… John S. Ascher, 25 August, 2018 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you John
I have two images of this fly in flight showing its face outside of Lobelia erinus bloom.
… Steve McKechnie, 25 August, 2018 - 10:03am login or register to post comments

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