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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Eristalinae » Brachyopini » Brachyopina » Chrysosyrphus » Chrysosyrphus versipellis
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Syrphid - Chrysosyrphus versipellis - male
Copyright © 2014 tom murray

Syrphid - Chrysosyrphus versipellis - Male
Ashburnham, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
May 26, 2014

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Contributed by tom murray on 26 May, 2014 - 9:15pm
Last updated 30 March, 2017 - 12:20pm

Moved
Moved from Chrysosyrphus latus.
… Martin Hauser, 30 March, 2017 - 12:20pm login or register to post comments

 
Why not latus? Skevington eta
Why not latus? Skevington etal says thats the only MA species...
… Even Dankowicz, 19 October, 2020 - 2:11pm login or register to post comments

 
Weird, diptera.org says that
Weird, diptera.org says that versipellis is a junior synonym for Chrysosyrphus frontosus, the latter in "(NT: NE) British Columbia to Nova Scotia, s. to Georgia, Mexico" but versipellis was described from WA originally?
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 19 October, 2020 - 2:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Chrysosyrphus.
… Brad Barnd, 24 March, 2016 - 5:11pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Syrphid Flies.
… John S. Ascher, 30 September, 2014 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

Hmmm... probably one of Cheil
Hmmm... probably one of Cheilosa, Chrysosyrphus, or Chrysogaster - having trouble telling the facial tubercule and height of antennal insertion on the head, so difficulty telling between the three.
… Kelsey J.R.P. Byers, 26 May, 2014 - 11:17pm login or register to post comments

 
it does not look like Cheilos
it does not look like Cheilosia, but very likely Chrysogaster or maybe Chrysosyrphus... great find
… Martin Hauser, 3 June, 2014 - 9:50am login or register to post comments

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