nealevenhuis's Identifications

caught on Pisonia brunoniana pod.
Introduced from Taiwan or Australia about 1917. (Englund, Ronald A. “The Loss of Native Biodiversity and Continuing Nonindigenous Species Introductions in Freshwater, Estuarine, and Wetland Communities of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands.” Estuaries, vol. 25, no. 3, 2002, pp. 418–30. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/1352965. Accessed 22 Jan. 2023.)

Mes de las moscas de la familia Bombyliidae: Abril 2023.
Mosca de la subfamilia Bombyliinae (Número: 23), perteneciente al género Sericosoma, libando flores del ( Haplopappus velutinuss ).
Interrelación Floral: Sericosoma sp. - ( Haplopappus velutinus ) .

I expected this to be one of the Lepidophora bee flies when I first saw it, but quickly realized the abdomen was completely different. It looks superficially like Toxophora amphitea, but there are no iNaturalist observations for that species in Missouri. I have a lot of additional images if a particular view would help.

The photos all seem to show a pale yellowish cast on the posterior dorsal abdomen, but in the field I thought it looked closer to whitish. I suspect the camera picked up reflected light from all the Rudbeckia, but maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me.

Pipunculidae g. sp.
Nicaragua: Granada: Volcán Mombacho: Finca San Joaquín, alt. 650 m, 11.825672, -85.988872, trampa malaise en café bajo cultivo orgánico, 30-IV-1998, col. Jean-Michel Maes (1 ej. en col. MEL) Sy-96