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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Brachyopini » Brachyopina » Orthonevra » bellula species group (Orthonevra bellula species group) » Orthonevra nitida
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Diptera - Orthonevra nitida - female
Copyright © 2008 Scott Justis

Diptera - Orthonevra nitida - Female
Norfolk, Virginia, USA
August 17, 2008
Size: ~6mm

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Contributed by Scott Justis on 17 August, 2008 - 10:21pm
Last updated 26 August, 2008 - 1:49pm

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Scott Justis, 18 August, 2008 - 12:05am login or register to post comments

 
beautiful eyes
Absolutely wonderful detail… I am a novice with macro and I have not come close to getting your kind of detail in the eyes. If you have the time, would you tell me what lens and setting you used?
Thanks, Eric
… Eric Gofreed, 4 July, 2009 - 10:19am login or register to post comments

Great Eyes
Compare Orthonevra nitida (1)
… Mike Boone, 17 August, 2008 - 10:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes and it's a girl!
Note eye spacing.
… Ron Hemberger, 17 August, 2008 - 11:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Mike and Ron...
These were the best shots I could get precariously leaning over the waters edge on a lake with my camera.
… Scott Justis, 18 August, 2008 - 12:04am login or register to post comments

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