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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Lapposyrphus » Lapposyrphus lapponicus
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Sunrise Syrphid 3 - Lapposyrphus lapponicus
Copyright © 2013 John Barry

Sunrise Syrphid 3 - Lapposyrphus lapponicus
Mount Rainier NP-Sunrise Trails, Pierce County, Washington, USA
July 14, 2013
On Ranunculus
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Contributed by John Barry on 16 July, 2013 - 11:15pm
Last updated 2 March, 2014 - 8:57pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphini.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 2 March, 2014 - 8:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… v belov, 14 December, 2013 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

Perhaps one of: Scaeva pyr
Perhaps one of:

Scaeva pyrastri
Lapposyrphus
Sericomya

I'm having trouble telling whether the eye and/or arista are haired.

(it could be something else too, but those are my best guesses)
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 25 November, 2013 - 12:32am login or register to post comments

 
Okay, an update to my earlier
Okay, an update to my earlier commentary now that I'm a bit more used to syrphids :^)

We can rule out Sericomya - the arista isn't haired.
Two last options I didn't mention:

Dasysyrphus
Eupeodes volucris

Eye appears to be hairless, which rules out Scaeva pyrastri unless I'm not seeing hairs that are there.

So Lapposyrphus or Eupeodes. But R4+5 bends up, which doesn't look like Eupeodes. The same is true of Dasysyrphus - a straight R4+5.

So I'd have to say Lapposyrphus, though the bands feel a bit too narrow for me for Lapposyrphus. It's possible the eye is actually haired and this is Scaeva instead.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 5 December, 2013 - 3:36am login or register to post comments

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