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ID please. - Rhingia nasica - female

ID please. - Rhingia nasica - Female
Loudonville, Ashland County, Ohio, USA
October 19, 2009

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Rhingia nasica
Female, so a syrphid....
Greetings

 
Thank you, Gerard!
What a delight to have expertise winging its way from the Netherlands.

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Hover fly?
I found one simular to this from what I can tell and found out it was a Hover fly........check that out and see if it's what you have.
Nancy

 
Probably not a hover fly, aka syrphid
Overall, it does look a lot like one, but the wing veins seem a lot simpler.

 
At first
I thought Brachyopa female, but now I'm not sure.

 
Maybe I'm wrong about syrphids. Seen Hammerschmidtia?
Martin Hauser mentioned it on a couple posts re: Brachyopa. While this is not an ID, see the apparently out-of-range H. ferruginea here.
http://www.sbes.stir.ac.uk/people/rotheray/index.html

Note wing veins in particular, also a larger head than Brachyopa.

 
Ron - thanks for haniging in there . .
on this ID which isn't helped by the fact that I needed another view of this fella.

 
My pleasure. It's an interesting fly.
And it's introduced me to a totally new (for me) genus. Hope Martin sees this one, as I have a hunch he'll know it.

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