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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Volucellini » Copestylum » vesicularium group (Copestylum vesicularium group) » Iridescent Bromeliad Fly (Copestylum vesicularium)
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Large Greenish Fly - Copestylum vesicularium - female
Copyright © 2009 Ashley Bradford

Large Greenish Fly - Copestylum vesicularium - Female
Alexandria, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
July 17, 2009
Size: 1 cm
That mouth sure looks stabbity - is it a horsefly?

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Large Greenish Fly - Copestylum vesicularium - female Large Greenish Fly - Copestylum vesicularium - female
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Contributed by Ashley Bradford on 27 July, 2009 - 2:00pm
Last updated 28 July, 2009 - 1:52pm

Moved
Moved from Copestylum.
… Martin Hauser, 28 July, 2009 - 1:52pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Martin!
Glad I shot it, though in the dark it looked fairly nondescript.
… Ashley Bradford, 28 July, 2009 - 1:56pm login or register to post comments

 
It has the green metallic she
It has the green metallic sheen and the base of the abdomen is yellow, that is enough to narrow it down to two species, but then I would need a pic of the underside of the abdomen, and I guess you did not take one...
… Martin Hauser, 28 July, 2009 - 1:58pm login or register to post comments

 
If she'd been on glass,
I would have! But sadly she just sat right there on the bricks.
… Ashley Bradford, 28 July, 2009 - 2:34pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Ashley Bradford, 27 July, 2009 - 3:23pm login or register to post comments

Copestylum sp.
So a female syrphid!
Greetings
… Gerard Pennards, 27 July, 2009 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Gerard!
This is the largest Syrphid I've knowingly seen, by far - those I'm familiar with are the little black-and-yellow hoverflies.
… Ashley Bradford, 27 July, 2009 - 3:39pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ashley Bradford, 27 July, 2009 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

must be a cool syrphig rather
perhaps akin to
… v belov, 27 July, 2009 - 2:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Wondering about
… John R. Maxwell, 27 July, 2009 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

 
That
definitely looks right. Thanks! I'm glad it wasn't a horsefly!
… Ashley Bradford, 27 July, 2009 - 3:22pm login or register to post comments

 
looks really good
*
… v belov, 27 July, 2009 - 3:17pm login or register to post comments

 
That does look
fairly similar, in structure and eyes, if not in color. Thanks for the direction. =)
… Ashley Bradford, 27 July, 2009 - 3:09pm login or register to post comments

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