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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Epistrophella » Epistrophella emarginata
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Syrphini? - Epistrophella emarginata
Copyright © 2013 James Reben

Syrphini? - Epistrophella emarginata
Fairfield, Somerset County, Maine, USA
August 17, 2013

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Contributed by James Reben on 30 August, 2013 - 9:42am
Last updated 7 January, 2014 - 6:13pm

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Martin Hauser, 7 January, 2014 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

Ephistrophella emarginata
When differentiating between Ephistrophella and Meligramma look at the basoflagellomere. In this specimen the basoflagellomere is longer than wide which means it is an Ephistrophella. In Meligramma the basoflagellomere is as long as it is wide.
… Kevin Moran, 7 January, 2014 - 6:09pm login or register to post comments

 
I moved it, but now I am not
I moved it, but now I am not so sure... the yellow on the side of the thorax is not that visible, the scutellumm is rather dark metallic and the wings are infuscated.... maybe this needs a second look...but right now I have no better idea ;-)
… Martin Hauser, 7 January, 2014 - 6:15pm login or register to post comments

 
Key it out the other way.
Ephistrophella emarginata does not need to have those yellow lateral stripes. It can come out in the key without those. One of the males in the link below has a metallic scutellum.

http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/ejournal/mylmst_23/mylmst_23_226.HTM
… Kevin Moran, 7 January, 2014 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

ID to tribe seems right.
Looks a lot like this, but just a guess.
… Ron Hemberger, 30 August, 2013 - 5:44pm login or register to post comments

 
It might be a Meliscaeva or r
It might be a Meliscaeva or related,... the scutellum is darker and it has no yellow strip on the pleuron...But I am still not sure what it is...
… Martin Hauser, 1 September, 2013 - 5:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Your Guess
looks right to me, thanks Ron.
… James Reben, 30 August, 2013 - 6:09pm login or register to post comments

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