Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae: Microdon craigheadii
Common Name: flower fly
Country: USA
State/District: WV
County: Tucker
Date: July 1-10, 1991
Photographer: M. S. Rubin
Identifier: F. C. Thompson
Collector: E. M Barrows
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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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