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Another Syrphinae hover fly from Hong Kong?
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 Photo taken in May last year near a paddy field. Any idea about its genus?
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 A female Sphaerophoria sp.
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 Thanks for your clue!
After re-checking the references, I guess it is a female Sphaerophoria qinbaensis Huo et Ren 2006, but not quite sure.
 
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