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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Lapposyrphus » Lapposyrphus lapponicus
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Scaeva sp. ? - Lapposyrphus lapponicus - male
Copyright © 2007 R. Bercha

Scaeva sp. ? - Lapposyrphus lapponicus - Male
Southern, Alberta, Canada
The shape and color (yellow) of the markings suggest Scaeva selenitica - however I'm not sure it it is found this far north.
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Contributed by R. Bercha on 21 December, 2007 - 10:39pm
Last updated 30 July, 2011 - 10:43pm

A belated FYI
Scaeva selenitica isn't found in North America. (It's European.)
… Ron Hemberger, 7 April, 2013 - 1:27pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 17 January, 2008 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

Congratulations, seconded.
Nice find. (Like you, I thought it looked like Scaeva. This time at least, it's great to be wrong!)

If you know the date you shot this, please provide.
… Ron Hemberger, 1 January, 2008 - 12:20am login or register to post comments

Nope, not Scaeva
But congratulations!
First picture on Bugguide of a male Eupeodes lapponica! A species with a big range, because it also occurs in Europe!
This is however the old name, nowadays the species is generally known as Lapposyrphus lapponicus (Zetterstedt), 1838.
Range: Fennoscandia south to Spain and the Mediterranean (including Crete); from Britain east through most of Eurasia (including Turkey) to the Pacific coast; Iceland; Greenland; N America from Alaska to California.
And why I´m so sure it is that species? In the wing in the upper part of the picture one can see clearly a sharp bent in the vein known as R4+5 (the one going all the way to the wing tip!). This feature only shows in this species, not in the very similar looking Eupeodes species.
Greetings
… Gerard Pennards, 31 December, 2007 - 10:44pm login or register to post comments

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