Cheilosia variabilis
| Cheilosia variabilis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Genus: | Cheilosia |
| Species: | C. variabilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Cheilosia variabilis (Panzer, 1798) | |
| Synonyms | |
Cheilosia variabilis is a European species of hoverfly. Like most Cheilosia it is black, and because of this may often be overlooked as a hoverfly.
Description
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Winglength 9-12 mm.Large blackish species.Face with conspicuous central knob.Antennae black.Arista with hairs longer than diameter of basal part.Thorax black-haired.Tergites pale yellow-haired.Elongate abdomen.Male halteres pale brown.[1]
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[3][4] The larva is figured by Dusek (1962).[5]
Distribution
Present in most of Europe and in the East Palearctic ecozone.[6] Eastwards to West Siberia.[7]
Biology
Habitat: deciduous forest, from the Fagus Picea zone to alluvial hardwood forest, tracksides, edges of clearings.[8] Adult flies are found from April to September in two generations.They visit flowers of white umbellifers,Aegopodium podagraria, Alliaria petiolata, Anthriscus sylvestris, Apiaceae, Aurinia saxatilis, Conium maculatum, Crataegus laevigata, Euphorbia cyparissias, Meum athamanticum, Potentilla reptans, Ranunculus repens, Salix spec., Sambucus nigra, Caltha, Cirsium, Galium, Scrophularia, Sorbus aucuparia.[9] The larvae are miners in the rhizomes of Scrophularia nodosa and in the stalks of Scrophularia auriculata.[10][11]
References
- ↑ Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
- ↑ Van der Goot,V.S. (1981) De zweefvliegen van Noordwest - Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van de Benelux. KNNV, Uitgave no.32: 275pp. Amsterdam.
- ↑ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Part I. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6.
- ↑ Coe, R.L. (1953) Diptera: Syrphidae. Handbks.ident.Br.insects, 10(1): 1-98. R.ent.Soc.London. pdf
- ↑ Dusek, J. (1962) Beitrag zur kenntnis von larven der Gattung Cheilosia Mg. (Diptera, Syrphidae). Acta Soc.Ent.Cechoslov. 59(1): 68-72.
- ↑ Fauna europaea
- ↑ Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
- ↑ Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.
- ↑ de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. Doc.Trav. IRSNB, no.60, 1-167.
- ↑ BARKEMEYER, W (1994). "Untersuchung zum Vorkommen der Schwebfliegen in Niedersachsen und Bremen (Diptera: Syrphidae)". Naturschutz Landschattspfl. Niedersachs. Hannover. 31: 1–514. ISBN 3-922321-70-4.
- ↑ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.