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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Eupeodes » subgenus Metasyrphus (Eupeodes subgenus Metasyrphus) » American Hover Fly (Eupeodes americanus) » larvae and pupae (Eupeodes americanus larvae and pupae)
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Syrphid larva? - Eupeodes americanus
Copyright © 2005 Richard Leung

Syrphid larva? - Eupeodes americanus
Springfield, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
April 25, 2005
Size: ~1cm
I found this larva on a rose leaf, feeding on a colony of aphids.

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Contributed by Richard Leung on 26 April, 2005 - 10:49pm
Last updated 30 September, 2021 - 3:59pm

Moved
Moved from subgenus Metasyrphus larvae and puparia.
… Even Dankowicz, 30 September, 2021 - 3:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from larvae and puparia.
… Even Dankowicz, 10 January, 2021 - 8:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Unidentified Immature Stages.
… Even Dankowicz, 10 January, 2021 - 8:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphinae.
… Beatriz Moisset, 7 December, 2009 - 6:23pm login or register to post comments

Nope
Maggots don't have eyes yet. They are sensitive to movement and touch, that's the reason a syrphid mom tries to lay her eggs very close to aphid colonies!
What you see is part of the respiratory system, and the golden dot is the opening from a breathing tube, whereas the lines are the breathing tubes in the body!
Greetings
… Gerard Pennards, 14 September, 2008 - 10:20am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
That makes a lot of sense.
… Beatriz Moisset, 14 September, 2008 - 2:41pm login or register to post comments

Yes! :-))
Yes, it is a syrphid larva, subfamily Syrphinae.
Greetings,
Gerard Pennards
… Gerard Pennards, 27 April, 2005 - 12:26am login or register to post comments

 
do these maggots have vision?
im guessing the gold dots are eyes and the lines trailing from these eyes are optic nerves?
… Garrett Herth, 8 June, 2006 - 9:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Interesting observation
Now I am curious too.
… Beatriz Moisset, 14 September, 2008 - 8:20am login or register to post comments

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