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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Eristalini » Sericomyiina » Sericomyia » Spot-winged Pond Fly (Sericomyia flagrans)
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Arctophila flagrans (Syrphidae) in the Colorado Rockies - Sericomyia flagrans
Copyright © 2006 Adalbert Goertz

Arctophila flagrans (Syrphidae) in the Colorado Rockies - Sericomyia flagrans
North of Goldfield,Teller Co. Road 81, Beaver Valley Village Junction, elevation of 10100 ft (N38.74141°, W105.1217°), Teller County, Colorado, USA
July 7, 2006
Size: L = 12 mm
Found on Dugaldia hoopesii - Orange Sneezeweed.
So far as I know this species is taken only on mountains above 10,000 ft.

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Arctophila flagrans (Syrphidae) in the Colorado Rockies - Sericomyia flagrans Arctophila flagrans (Syrphidae) in the Colorado Rockies - Sericomyia flagrans
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Contributed by Adalbert Goertz on 9 July, 2006 - 8:41pm
Last updated 31 October, 2009 - 8:44pm

Arctophila flagrans
Moved from Adalbert's Colorado Images. ID confirmed by Gerard Pennards, in an email to Jerry Friedman.
… Charley Eiseman, 5 October, 2009 - 2:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Frass.
… Chuck Entz, 12 May, 2007 - 7:03pm login or register to post comments

Frassed
Moved from Adalbert's Colorado Images.
… Joe, Entomologist (in training), 10 May, 2007 - 9:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Why are these frassed?
Do we have better pixs from Colorado?
… Adalbert Goertz, 10 May, 2007 - 11:07pm login or register to post comments

Criorhina sp.
Neat find! Sure looks to me like a species of Criorhina, some of which are enormous bumble bee mimics. Family is indeed Syrphidae.
… Eric R. Eaton, 10 July, 2006 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Criorhina?
Thanks, Eric. Have to look a little further. What I can google, doesnt show the same venation. The only Criorhina in Colorado is C. oxyacanthae which this one is not. It looks like E. burda.
… Adalbert Goertz, 10 July, 2006 - 6:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Arctophila flagrans?
Now that one of my photos has been identified as A. flagrans, I notice that this picture looks very similar to me.
… Jerry Friedman, 1 October, 2009 - 12:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Ok.
Wow, at first blush it sure looks like Criorhina, but I trust your sources:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 11 July, 2006 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Ciorhina sp?
.
… Adalbert Goertz, 11 July, 2006 - 10:08pm login or register to post comments

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