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Species Eristalis hirta

Naturalized Drone Fly - Eristalis hirta - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Aschiza")

Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)

Subfamily Eristalinae

Tribe Eristalini

Subtribe Eristalina

Genus Eristalis (Drone Flies)

No Taxon (Subgenus Eoseristalis)

Species hirta (Eristalis hirta)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Eristalis hirtus

Explanation of Names

Eristalis hirta Loew 1866

Size

10-13 mm(1)

Identification

"In Eristalis interrupta the pterostigma doesn`t reach the tip of the sub-costa, the hind metatarsus is inflated ( not in this specimen ), the face is more produced and the black facial stripe more developed in Eristalis interrupta." (comment from #217554).

Range

throughout w. NA(2)

Internet References

Species page(2)

Works Cited

1.	Syrphidae of Ontario

2.	Hover Fly Survey of LA County

Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 15 January, 2009 - 7:26pm
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch, v belov, James Bailey
Last updated 12 October, 2017 - 1:48pm

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