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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Bacchini » Melanostoma » Melanostoma mellinum
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Melanostoma sp ? - Melanostoma mellinum
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Melanostoma sp ? - Melanostoma mellinum
Virginia, St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA
May 20, 2020
Size: 6 mm
47.59265, -92.5039. On Caltha palustris (marsh marigold). In an alder-black ash swamp.

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Contributed by JerryMcCormick on 21 May, 2020 - 7:48pm
Last updated 22 May, 2020 - 6:14am

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 22 May, 2020 - 6:14am login or register to post comments

Yes; Melanostoma … male. T
Yes; Melanostoma … male.
The only species on the Checklist is mellinum but this most probably comprises more than one species so Me;anostoma looks good.
… Bill Dean, 22 May, 2020 - 12:35am login or register to post comments

 
I thought we were moving them
I thought we were moving them all to mellinum for now pending revision?
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 22 May, 2020 - 4:32am login or register to post comments

 
Okay.
Okay.
… Bill Dean, 22 May, 2020 - 5:23am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 21 May, 2020 - 10:24pm login or register to post comments

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