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Thick Headed Fly

Physocephala texana

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ForestDragon
ForestDragon 11 years ago

This is a species of Thick-headed Fly. They are excellent wasp mimics! I think yours looks most like Physocephala texana but I am not absolutely sure. Here is a link to the bugguide page for it: http://bugguide.net/node/view/326275

A link to the rest of the flies in this subfamily:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/97229/bgpa...

TomHarvie
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TomHarvie

British Columbia, Canada

Spotted on Sep 13, 2012
Submitted on Sep 13, 2012

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