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Hover Fly

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

1 Species ID Suggestions

PedroNicolau
PedroNicolau 10 years ago
Hoverfly
Sericomyia sp. Sericomyia


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4 Comments

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

thanks Jemma!

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

great pics.

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

thank you! must look up the species

PedroNicolau
PedroNicolau 10 years ago

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...

mendes.madalena
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mendes.madalena

Portugal

Spotted on Jul 9, 2013
Submitted on Jul 22, 2013

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