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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Rhingiini » Cheilosiina » Ferdinandea » Ferdinandea croesus
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who is this golden beauty? - Ferdinandea croesus - male
Copyright © 2014 Cynthia Bingham Keiser

who is this golden beauty? - Ferdinandea croesus - Male
Poway, San Diego County, California, USA
January 27, 2014
On Boxelder at Lake Hodges

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who is this golden beauty? - Ferdinandea croesus - male who is this golden beauty? - Ferdinandea croesus - male who is this golden beauty? - Ferdinandea croesus - male
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Contributed by Cynthia Bingham Keiser on 27 January, 2014 - 10:17pm
Last updated 15 April, 2015 - 11:19am

Moved
Moved from Ferdinandea.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 15 April, 2015 - 11:19am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 28 January, 2014 - 5:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved for expert attention.
Moved from ID Request.

Maybe something in/near Ferdinandea?

… Ken Wolgemuth, 27 January, 2014 - 10:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes - the bristles on the tho
Yes - the bristles on the thorax are pretty distinctive. My usual online resource (the Key to the Genera of Nearctic Syrphidae) seems to be down at the moment, but I keyed it to genus with the Manual of Nearctic Diptera and it agrees with your ID and my memory of the bristles - hooray!
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 28 January, 2014 - 3:21am login or register to post comments

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