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Field Notes

Description:

About 1.5 cm hairy fly, is it a horse-fly?

Notes:

found in a garden of a house, kind of in the middle of the countryside

Species ID Suggestions

Hoverfly

Sericomyia sp.

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PedroNicolau
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Comments (4)
PedroNicolau
I think it's a Syrphid/Hover Fly for sure, but I just can't seem to find the genus. Sericomyia seems the most likely, but...

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PublishedJuly 22, 2013

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