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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Lapposyrphus » Lapposyrphus lapponicus
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Is this Lapposyrphus lapponicus? - Lapposyrphus lapponicus
Copyright © 2011 David Moll

Is this Lapposyrphus lapponicus? - Lapposyrphus lapponicus
Big Lake, Apache County, Arizona, USA
July 27, 2011

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Is this Lapposyrphus lapponicus? - Lapposyrphus lapponicus Is this Lapposyrphus lapponicus? - Lapposyrphus lapponicus
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Contributed by David Moll on 30 July, 2011 - 12:27am
Last updated 22 December, 2013 - 6:02pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphini.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 22 December, 2013 - 6:02pm login or register to post comments

David: I think it's one of these two...
...but can't figure out exactly which.


(I think Lapposyrphus lapponicus is mainly in the north; it's definitely in Canada.)
… Ron Hemberger, 7 April, 2013 - 2:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Ron
Nice to hear from you.

I think the images are easily good enough to show hairs on eyes but I don't see any.

The other characteristics may be indistinguishable.
… David Moll, 7 April, 2013 - 4:01pm login or register to post comments

 
Your specimen doesn't have the hairs.
.
… Ron Hemberger, 7 April, 2013 - 4:31pm login or register to post comments

 
I think this is Lapposyrphus
I think this is Lapposyrphus - I'm seeing the bend up in R4+5 (which Eupeodes lacks) and lack of hair on the eyes (as Ron says, so not Scaeva). According to the range map here Lapposyrphus does come into the southern United States, though is more common in Canada.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 22 December, 2013 - 5:58pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 18 December, 2011 - 1:55am login or register to post comments

Moved
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… John F. Carr, 4 August, 2011 - 7:43pm login or register to post comments

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