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A trio of entomologists at the Illinois Natural History Survey tackled a backlog of hover fly specimens dating back a century, digitized them, and combined them with online databases—leading to several new species records, changes to species ranges, and even discoveries of new areas of conservation concern for hover flies in the state.
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