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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Syrphus » Syrphus rectus
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Syrphus torvus ? - Syrphus rectus
Copyright © 2010 stan gilliam

Syrphus torvus ? - Syrphus rectus
Oak Ridge, Guilford County, North Carolina, USA
November 20, 2010
Size: 1/2 in. long
On oxeye daisy in a field. No other flowers around.
Other flies feed on them. We had a couple of hard frosts, but
it was warm today.
This looks like Syrphus torvus on BG to me.

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Contributed by stan gilliam on 20 November, 2010 - 5:29pm
Last updated 1 April, 2019 - 2:53pm

Syrphus rectus ...female
Syrphus rectus ..... female ... typo below. Sorry.
… Bill Dean, 27 May, 2019 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

Syrphus relictus .... female
The hind metatarsus looks yellow in this image but darker in the other image but it is not orange contrasting with the other remaining hind tarsi and the black on frons is almost to antennae and the sides of thorax not noticeably yellow striped, ruling out knabi.
Yellow bands broadly overlapping side margins of tergites, hind femora orange/yellow with dark band in the apical half and hind tibia with black markings.
… Bill Dean, 1 April, 2019 - 5:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, Syrphus rectus..... typo
Yes, Syrphus rectus .... typo
… Bill Dean, 27 May, 2019 - 2:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Bill.
I am always happy to see my photos updated and placed correctly.
However, I am confused about the species.
I see references to S. rectus and S. relictus. Is there a typo here?
… stan gilliam, 1 April, 2019 - 5:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Typo in the comment title.
Bill has asked me to move a number of pic to S. rectus today, and these were among them.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 1 April, 2019 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphus.

ID'd by Bill Dean (personal communication).
… Ken Wolgemuth, 1 April, 2019 - 2:53pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 1 December, 2010 - 4:39pm login or register to post comments

It's Syrphus, but I'm unsure of species.
Info page here says S. torvus has hair on eyes, which I don't see here. Sorry, no personal knowledge of this one.
… Ron Hemberger, 20 November, 2010 - 7:57pm login or register to post comments

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