Key Identification Features
- This species can be identified by its characteristic yellow legs.
- Chrysops viduatus (Fabricius, 1794) has two key identifying features.
- The middle tibiae of this species are distinctly yellow-brown.
- Its mesonotum is grayish, marked with five indistinct longitudinal lines on its upper surface.
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