File:Chrysopilus thoracicus (gold-backed snipe flies) (Skyline Caverns, Front Royal, Virginia, USA) 2.jpg

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English: Chrysopilus thoracicus (Fabricius, 1805) - gold-backed snipe flies in Virginia, USA. (12 May 2016)

This species of fly is remarkable for having intensely lustrous, golden-yellow hairs on the dorsal thorax. The individuals shown above are mating - the female is the upper fly (with eyes set apart) and the male is the lower fly (with eyes barely touching each other).

Classification: Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Diptera, Rhagionidae

Locality: near the entrance of Skyline Caverns, near the town of Front Royal, central Warren County, northern Virginia, USA

See info. at: www.mlbs.virginia.edu/organism/chrysopilus_thoracicus and

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopilus
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