Chrysopilus thoracicus (gold-backed snipe flies) (Skyline Caverns, Front Royal, Virginia, USA) 3
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Description: English: Chrysopilus thoracicus (Fabricius, 1805) - gold-backed snipe flies in Virginia, USA. (12 May 2016) This species of fly is remarkable for having intensely lustrous, golden-yellow hairs on the dorsal thorax. The individuals shown above are mating - the female is the upper fly (with eyes set apart) and the male is the lower fly (with eyes barely touching each other). Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Rhagionidae Locality: near the entrance of Skyline Caverns, near the town of Front Royal, central Warren County, northern Virginia, USA See info. at: www.mlbs.virginia.edu/organism/chrysopilus_thoracicus and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopilus. Date: 12 May 2016, 11:54:48. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/27296280663/. Author: James St. John.
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- Chrysopilus thoracicus (Golden-backed Snipe Fly)
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