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Hover fly from Hong Kong: Genus is...?
chickenold
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Posted on 29-06-2015 16:42
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Photo taken yesterday in a secondary forest near a stream. The pattern on the abdomen is distinctive yet it is not illustrated in the literature that I have.
Any idea about its genus? Thanks!
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Paul Beuk
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Same species that was not resolved yet as here: http://www.dipter...d_id=47088.
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This is found to be Episyrphus arcifer (Sack, 1927)
 
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