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Hover Fly - Eupeodes

Hover Fly - Eupeodes
Oyster Bay/Planting Fields Arboretum, Nassau County, New York, USA
September 1, 2013
Epistrophes or Eupiodes?

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Tribe Syrphini covers both candidates.
I lean towards Epistrophe on this one, not Eupeodes. (Note spelling on both.)

 
Epistrophe has the yellow spo
Epistrophe has the yellow spots reaching wing margin Ron, and the abdomen is rolled without a flattned ridge at sides like this.
Ridge: markings not reaching side margins, totally black hairs from basal half of tergite 2 to tergite 5 ........ Eupeodes I would say.

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