Soldier Fly, Hermetia illucens.
One does not ordinarily think of a soldier fly as a pollinator, but this one, with some green
camoflauge, was sipping from a Philadelphia fleabane last year at Anahuac NWR, Texas
on 2 April 2005.
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IMPOSSIBLE !
THIS FLY ISN'T Hermetia ilucens OR AN HERMETIINAE .
SEE SPECIALLY THE ABDOMINAL PATTERN, WITH GREEN PATCHES, SHORTER AND WIDER, WITHOUT TRANSLUCID AREAS BASALY PLACED !
YOUR SAMPLE LOOK LIKE MORE A TYPICAL COLORED STRATIOMYINAE, (STRATIOMYINI), AS OF THE GENUS Hedriodiscus, Odontomyia, etc.
SEE MY WORK WITH D.I.C.MILETI, ON MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON Hermetia illucens IN :
Rev. Brasil. Biol. 36 (4): 923-935, Dec.1976.
(With 37 figures in text) DON'T NEED TRANSLATION - THE FIGURES AND CAPTIONS ARE AUTO-EXPLICATIVE.
IMPOSSIBLE !
THIS FLY ISN'T Hermetia ilucens OR AN HERMETIINAE .
SEE SPECIALLY THE ABDOMINAL PATTERN, WITH GREEN PATCHES, SHORTER AND WIDER, WITHOUT TRANSLUCID AREAS BASALY PLACED !
YOUR SAMPLE LOOK LIKE MORE A TYPICAL COLORED STRATIOMYINAE, (STRATIOMYINI), AS OF THE GENUS Hedriodiscus, Odontomyia, etc.
SEE MY WORK WITH D.I.C.MILETI, ON MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON Hermetia illucens IN :
Rev. Brasil. Biol. 36 (4): 923-935, Dec.1976.
(With 37 figures in text) DON'T NEED TRANSLATION - THE FIGURES AND CAPTIONS ARE AUTO-EXPLICATIVE.