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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Parasyrphus
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Syrphid 2 - Parasyrphus
Copyright © 2018 Ken Wolgemuth

Syrphid 2 - Parasyrphus
Thompsontown, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 22, 2018
Just one lousy shot of this one, which didn't want to sit still for me.
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Contributed by Ken Wolgemuth on 22 August, 2018 - 5:53pm
Last updated 23 August, 2018 - 7:43am

front and middle tarsi brown
front and middle tarsi brown makes me think this could be relictus.
… Bill Dean, 12 June, 2020 - 2:49pm login or register to post comments

 
That would be a new species for the Guide...
...if we could be sure.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 12 June, 2020 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 23 August, 2018 - 7:43am login or register to post comments

Parasyrphus ...... female.
Parasyrphus ...... female.

Abdomen side margins rolled and not as ovate as Syrphus. Hind legs dark with no orange.
Possibly Parasyrphus relictus but safe in Parasyrphus.
… Bill Dean, 23 August, 2018 - 4:20am login or register to post comments

 
Genus ID
I'm curious, what do you mean in saying that the abdomen margins are rolled?
… upupa-epops, 16 October, 2019 - 3:51pm login or register to post comments

 
rolled means without ridge at
rolled means without ridge at sides of tergites.
… Bill Dean, 12 June, 2020 - 2:45pm login or register to post comments

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