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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Bacchini » Platycheirus » subgenus Platycheirus (Platycheirus subgenus Platycheirus) » Platycheirus obscurus
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Unknown Diptera - Platycheirus obscurus - male
Copyright © 2012 Antonio Liberta

Unknown Diptera - Platycheirus obscurus - Male
Forest Park, Queens County, New York, USA
May 26, 2012
Size: ~.9cm

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Contributed by Antonio Liberta on 14 August, 2012 - 8:05pm
Last updated 7 December, 2016 - 11:51am

Moved
Moved from Platycheirus.

Keyed with Young et al 2016:

1: male -> 2
2: unmodified foretibia and fore basitarsus -> 49
49: posterior surface of forefemur with uniform setae -> 53
53: fore and mid tibia with strong setae, facial pollinosity rippled -> 54
54: first tarsomere of foreleg with only weak pile -> 56
56: pollinosity not uniform -> 57
57: pollinosity not uniform -> 58
58: lateral pile of tergites pale, foretibia setae not so thick -> 59
59: face with ripples -> 63
63: face strongly produced, tibiae orange on apical third -> 64
64: facial sripe on entirey of face, vertex at 100deg -> P. obscurus
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 7 December, 2016 - 11:51am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Platycheirus or Melanostoma.

Face protruded forward is distinctive to Platycheirus as opposed to Melanostoma.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 7 January, 2014 - 1:26am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… v belov, 14 December, 2013 - 1:04pm login or register to post comments

Can't see the abdomen too wel
Can't see the abdomen too well... Platycheirus or Melanostoma?
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 2 December, 2013 - 7:18pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 15 August, 2012 - 8:23am login or register to post comments

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