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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Dasysyrphus » pinastri group (Dasysyrphus pinastri group) » Dasysyrphus pacificus
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Dasysyrphus pauxillus - Dasysyrphus pacificus - female
Copyright © 2012 Hartmut Wisch

Dasysyrphus pauxillus - Dasysyrphus pacificus - Female
Mount Pinos summit area, elev. 2688 m, Ventura County, California, USA
Size: 6 mm

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 5 July, 2012 - 5:56pm
Last updated 16 December, 2013 - 12:00pm

Moved
Moved from Dasysyrphus pauxillus.
This being a female we couldn't check gonostylus, but the wing has the large bare areas in cells br and bm, actually bm nearly all bare.
… Hartmut Wisch, 16 December, 2013 - 12:00pm login or register to post comments

please review the ID
acc'g to the latest revision(1), D. pauxillus does not occur in CA; this might be D. pacificus, once considered synonymous with the former (a total of 3 spp. are known to occur in CA)
… v belov, 11 December, 2013 - 1:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Vassili -
Suspected something like this after perusal of the revision. Already scheduled to go look at this and some other specimens coming Monday.
… Hartmut Wisch, 11 December, 2013 - 5:41pm login or register to post comments

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