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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Pelecinobaccha » Pelecinobaccha costata
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Ocyptamus? - Pelecinobaccha costata - female
Copyright © 2010 JC Jones

Ocyptamus? - Pelecinobaccha costata - Female
Spiderweb, Aiken County, South Carolina, USA
November 8, 2010
Size: 10 -12mm
Nectaring(?) on a Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia). It took 10 minutes of following this guy/gal around with the camera just to get this one image.

Looks much like this Ocyptamus costatus image here, but this would be far outside the range given for this species on the BG info page.
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Contributed by JC Jones on 8 November, 2010 - 5:24pm
Last updated 7 January, 2014 - 4:50pm

Moved
Moved from Pelecinobaccha costata.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 7 January, 2014 - 4:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… JC Jones, 10 November, 2010 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

It's a she. And I think your ID is good.
I couldn't find definitive range info on this one, but that's not really a skill of mine. Further, a renowned editor here, commenting on range info, once said "If it flies, all bets are off."
… Ron Hemberger, 9 November, 2010 - 8:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Ron..
Re: range
I did find this, which seems to indicate that NCSU has at least one O. costatus specimen from NC.
… JC Jones, 10 November, 2010 - 2:54pm login or register to post comments

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