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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Eristalini » Eristalina » Drone Flies (Eristalis) » Subgenus Eoseristalis (Eristalis Subgenus Eoseristalis) » Eristalis stipator
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Eristalis stipator - female
Copyright © 2006 Hartmut Wisch

Eristalis stipator - Female
Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, USA
August 7, 2006
On a Shasta Daisy in garden.

See Insects of Cedar Creek image of E. latifrons here:

http://cedarcreek.umn.edu/insects/album/029047065ap.html
I'm not certain that the dark pattern on the wings is exactly the same.

Cole & Schlinger (The Flies of Western North America, U of C Press, 1968) list this species as having been "...reported from Mexico to B.C., east to Florida."

Update, 01/21/2013: This is E. stipator Osten Sacken. The above mentioned name, E. latifrons is considered an invalid junior synonym. Have taken a number of specimens since this post. See also

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 9 August, 2006 - 1:31am
Last updated 21 January, 2013 - 10:06pm

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Eoseristalis.
… Hartmut Wisch, 21 January, 2013 - 10:06pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Eristalis.
… v belov, 21 January, 2013 - 6:53pm login or register to post comments

Probably right
Shall we keep it at genus level until further confirmation?
… Beatriz Moisset, 26 August, 2006 - 7:49am login or register to post comments

 
Yes,
I think so.
… Hartmut Wisch, 26 August, 2006 - 9:45am login or register to post comments

Very nice photos. (Timely, too.)
I shot one of these - badly - this morning and was hoping some of my photos were good enough for an ID. Now, here's the same insect, nicely done. (Mine was on buckwheat and stayed off the top layer, that is to say, out of the good light.)

Just checked the link and things got even better! First photo I saw - Eristalis tenax - is another I was trying to ID. Thanks loads, Hartmut.
… Ron Hemberger, 9 August, 2006 - 5:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Update: New (?) synonym is Eristalis stipator
http://bugguide.net/node/view/23810
… Ron Hemberger, 24 December, 2008 - 4:52pm login or register to post comments

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