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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae: Chrysotoxum perplexum
Common Name: flower fly

Country: USA
State/District: WV
County: Tucker
Date (D-M-Y): 9 - 1991

Photographer: M. S. Rubin

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: E. M. Barrows
Location: Tucker Fernow Expt. Forest, WV
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This fly came from a sample in alcohol from a Malaise trap.   Unfortunately, the alcohol often reduces the quality of a flower fly specimen by causing some parts to crinkle, deforming its wings and other parts, fading it, or a combination of these things.









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