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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Syrphus » Syrphus torvus
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Syrphid, another? - Syrphus torvus
Copyright © 2011 Scott Peden

Syrphid, another? - Syrphus torvus
Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Rancho del Oso, SKy Sea rd Farm area, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
October 23, 2011
On a California Aster

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Contributed by Scott Peden on 9 December, 2011 - 1:05am
Last updated 20 November, 2023 - 5:07pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphus or Parasyrphus or Epistrophe or Eupeodes.
… Jeff Brown, 20 November, 2023 - 5:07pm login or register to post comments

Syrphus torvus ... female ...
Syrphus torvus ... female .....
Hairs on eyes (best seen in other image)
… Bill Dean, 20 November, 2023 - 4:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphini.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 17 January, 2016 - 3:11pm login or register to post comments

looks like
this Eupeodes, but broader.

Mine a pregnant female?
… Scott Peden, 4 January, 2012 - 10:35pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 17 December, 2011 - 3:20pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Flies.
… Brad Barnd, 9 December, 2011 - 2:26am login or register to post comments

yes
… Brad Barnd, 9 December, 2011 - 1:29am login or register to post comments

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