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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Cerioidini » Polybiomyia » Polybiomyia townsendi
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conopid? - Polybiomyia townsendi - male
Copyright © 2006 Patrick Alexander

conopid? - Polybiomyia townsendi - Male
Dripping Springs, Organ Mountains, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA
April 23, 2006
Size: 1/2"-5/8"
A rather effective wasp-mimic. Part of a congregation of insects around mud below a seep; the congregation included wasps very much like this guy.
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Contributed by Patrick Alexander on 23 April, 2006 - 8:20pm
Last updated 25 August, 2015 - 1:44am

Moved
Moved from Polybiomyia.
… Martin Hauser, 12 May, 2009 - 7:42pm login or register to post comments

Polybiomyia cf. pedicellata
That is a syrphid of the genus Polybiomyia maybe the species pedicellata. They mimik wasps and therefore they look like Conopidae (they are very often confused with Conopidae. Next to the wing veination the eyes in the males are a giveaway: In Conopids the eyes never meet on top of the head, while in males Syrphids (like in thispicture) they meet.
Great picture I have never seen this fly alive!

Cheers
Martin
… Martin Hauser, 6 May, 2006 - 1:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Cool. I didn't know any syrphids had those elongate antennae!

Patrick Alexander
http://boechera.nmsu.edu/~paalexan/
… Patrick Alexander, 6 May, 2006 - 1:40pm login or register to post comments

...
That is a beautiful conopid!
-Sean McCann


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… Sean McCann, 23 April, 2006 - 8:43pm login or register to post comments

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