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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Syrphus or Parasyrphus or Epistrophe or Eupeodes
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Syrphidae puparium, dorsal
Copyright © 2012 MJ Hatfield

Syrphidae puparium, dorsal
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
September 2, 2011
Collecting aphids to feed a green lacewing larva (from an egg), I inadvertantly collected a few other species including syrphid fly larvae. There was more than one larva in the container but these may be the same species: .

I’m posting this to Syrphini based on Beatriz’s life cycle

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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 16 July, 2012 - 10:20am
Last updated 17 January, 2016 - 3:06pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphini.
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