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American Harlequin in Garrett Co., Maryland (7/17/2024). (c) Jim Moore (Maryland), some rights reserved (<a rel='license' href='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/'>CC BY-NC</a>). (Photo ID: 1068366 - Psn: 34)

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Status

Uncommon. Flies mostly late April through September. Adults are found in forest and field habitats.

Description

The only member of its genus in North America. Despite variability in the abdominal pattern (the area between the yellow bands can be entirely black or mostly orange), this species can be readily identified from photos. The vivid yellow stripes on the side of the scutum and the yellow-banded abdomen are distinctive. This may be a complex of two sympatric species. (Skevington, 2019)

Relationships

Larvae are unknown, but larvae of other members of the genus live in ant nests, where they feed on root aphids tended by ants of the genus Lasius (Skevington, 2019).

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An American Harlequin in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/18/2017). Verified by V. Belov/BugGuide. View Record Details Media by Steve Scholnick.

An American Harlequin in Garrett Co., Maryland (9/1/2023). (c) Jim Moore (Maryland), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). View Record Details Media by Jim Moore.

An American Harlequin in Baltimore Co., Maryland (7/7/2020). (c) Frode Jacobsen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). View Record Details Media by Frode Jacobsen.

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American Harlequin in Garrett Co., Maryland (7/17/2024). (c) Jim Moore (Maryland), some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). View Record Details Media by Jim Moore.

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Source: Wikipedia

Philhelius flavipes

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Genus:	Philhelius
Species:	P. flavipes
Binomial name
*Philhelius flavipes* (Loew, 1863)
Synonyms^[1]
Doros flavipes Loew, 1863 Xanthogramma flavipes (Loew, 1863)

Philhelius flavipes is a species of syrphid fly in the family Syrphidae. It is found in North America.^[1]^[2]^[3] Prior to 2018, it was known under the genus name Xanthogramma, a junior synonym.^[4]

References

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^ ^a ^b "Xanthogramma flavipes Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Xanthogramma flavipes". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ "Xanthogramma flavipes species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
^ Evenhuis NL. Nomenclatural studies toward a World List of Diptera genus-group names. Part VI: Daniel William Coquillett. Zootaxa. 2018 Feb 18;4381(1):1-95. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4381.1.1. PMID: 29689947

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Media related to Xanthogramma flavipes at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Xanthogramma flavipes	Wikidata: Q10834731 BOLD: 200912 BugGuide: 17300 EoL: 750774 GBIF: 5071294 iNaturalist: 474387 ITIS: 140304 NatureServe: 2.950738 NCBI: 414875 Open Tree of Life: 1016990

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American Harlequin

Xanthogramma flavipes (Loew, 1863)

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