A swift feather legged fly on goldenrod flowers. Its wings are open, opaque, and smoky brown. It has 2 large dark brown eyes, 2 small black antenna, and a black face with yellow stripes around the eyes. Its thorax is slightly fuzzy and black with 4 yellow, vertical stripes at the top and a yellow horizontal stripes that splits it in half. Its abdomen is slightly fuzzy and pumpkin orange. Its thick halteres are pumpkin orange. 4 black legs are visible, with its hind legs having black 'feathering.' The goldenrod flowers are yellow. The background is various green goldenrod parts.

A swift feather legged fly I saw at Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, PA from Sept 2022.

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