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Species Sphaerophoria novaeangliae

Syrphinae ? - Sphaerophoria novaeangliae Syrphinae ? - Sphaerophoria novaeangliae Yellow-Banded Flower Fly(?) on Hairy Asters - Sphaerophoria novaeangliae Yellow-Banded Flower Fly(?) on Hairy Asters - Sphaerophoria novaeangliae Yellow-Banded Flower Fly(?) on Hairy Asters - Sphaerophoria novaeangliae Yellow-Banded Flower Fly(?) on Hairy Asters - Sphaerophoria novaeangliae
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Aschiza")
Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)
Subfamily Syrphinae
Tribe Syrphini
Genus Sphaerophoria
Species novaeangliae (Sphaerophoria novaeangliae)
Explanation of Names
Sphaerophoria novaeangliae Johnson 1916
Identification
Can be told from other Sphaerophoria by the pale marks along the sides of the thorax that stop at the suture, in combination with a bold facial stripe below the antennae (1).
Range
transcontinental in NA (AK-CO-MA)(2)
Internet References
Holotype specimen images (male) from the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ).
Works Cited
1.The flower flies of the subfamily Syrphinae of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland, Diptera: Syrphidae
Vockeroth J.R. 1992. The insects and arachnids of Canada, Pt. 18. Ottawa: Agriculture Canada. 456 pp.
2.Thompson F.C., Pape T., Evenhuis N.L. (2013) Systema Dipterorum, Version 1.5