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Ladder-backed Hover Fly

Melanostoma scalare

8,106 observations in the source records

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What the records say

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 2,178, February 1,608, March 2,520, April 3,964, May 5,716, June 6,233, July 6,670, August 5,736, September 4,211, October 3,143, November 1,718, December 1,342.
United States45,046
Alaska45,039
United Kingdom3,532
England2,982
Germany461
Scotland369
Netherlands211
France205
Wales122
Niedersachsen122

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

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderFlies · Diptera
FamilyHover Flies · Syrphidae
GenusMelanostoma

Sources

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