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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Toxomerus » Toxomerus marginatus
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Hover Fly - Toxomerus marginatus
Copyright © 2008 Lynn Bergen

Hover Fly - Toxomerus marginatus
Baiting Hollow, Suffolk County, New York, USA
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Contributed by Lynn Bergen on 15 December, 2008 - 12:25am
Last updated 15 December, 2008 - 10:47am

Moved
Moved from Toxomerus.
… John R. Maxwell, 15 December, 2008 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Toxomerus marginatus.
… Lynn Bergen, 15 December, 2008 - 1:13am login or register to post comments

 
Right the first time
It's Toxomerus marginatus. (The less common T. geminatus has a "keyhole" in the pattern, while your third and final choice - T.politus - looks very different. Disclaimer: Florida has others.)
… Ron Hemberger, 15 December, 2008 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

 
Ron-Thanks for straightening me out here!
I was looking at a lot of Hover Flies and became very confused with the comments by Martin Hauser regarding marginatus vs geminatus here:



I am still not clear why the fly pictured there is geminatus and not marginatus.
It is the only one that I see there that looks like marginatus.
The body shape even stands out as being different (to my untrained eye)than the others in the geminatus group.

Lynn
… Lynn Bergen, 16 December, 2008 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

 
email me if you'd like a detailed answer
and please link to this post for easy reference. (See my profile for address.)
… Ron Hemberger, 16 December, 2008 - 8:40pm login or register to post comments

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