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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Milesiini » Xylotina
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Syrphid ovipositing - female
Copyright © 2012 Karen Campbell

Syrphid ovipositing - Female
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA
June 26, 2011
Is this Neoascia sp?
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Contributed by Karen Campbell on 14 February, 2012 - 8:36pm
Last updated 3 January, 2015 - 6:31pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 3 January, 2015 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

I don't think Neoascia - the
I don't think Neoascia - the abdomen doesn't seem petiolate to me and the color pattern feels wrong. I'd say more likely something in Syrphini, but I could very well be wrong here on both counts!

(I feel like the combination of pattern and enlarged hind femurs should tell me something, but I'm not sure what that something is... maybe Syritta or Chalcosyrphus?)
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 3 December, 2013 - 3:43am login or register to post comments

 
S. pipiens?
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