The Golden-backed Snipe Fly, common in North Carolina, is one of our most beautiful flies, with a glittering golden thorax above.

Males have skinny abdomens that are upturned near the end, females have plump ones.

Male, Granville Co., NC 4/29/2012.

Female, Chapel Hill, NC 5/8/05

Male, Chapel Hill, NC 5/5/07