Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae: Helophilus fasciatus
Common Name: flower fly
Country: USA
State/District: VA
County: Fairfax
Date: 26 September 1998
Photographer: Spiro Savov
Identifier: F. C. Thompson
Collector: not applicable
Location: Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve Malaise Trap
Keywords: A DMWP flower fly Forest Ecology hover fly Additional Information:
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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