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Big-headed Lagoon Fly

Eristalinus megacephalus

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) eduardmarques, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.

Spain	137
France	103
China	97
India	73
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region	61
Portugal	52
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	51
Cataluña/Catalunya	50
Occitanie	46
Italy	37

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Flies · Diptera
Family	Hover Flies · Syrphidae
Genus	Lagoon Flies · Eristalinus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Big-headed Lagoon Fly with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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