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Apr 6, 2016 19:53:41   #
relbugman Loc: MD/FL/CA/SC
 
I believe your fly is an unusual syrphid or flower-loving fly--I think I ID'd a spurious vein on the wing. It disappears in the base of the first widening closed marginal cell.

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Apr 6, 2016 23:05:07   #
Photog21 Loc: Lombard, Il.
 
Nicely shot, Douglass, love #3 :thumbup:

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Apr 7, 2016 04:04:14   #
Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA
 
relbugman wrote:
I believe your fly is an unusual syrphid or flower-loving fly.
Per BugGuide.net: Mexican Cactus Fly (Copestylum mexicanum) http://bugguide.net/node/view/1207724

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