Eristalis pertinax
| Eristalis pertinax | |
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| male | |
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| female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Genus: | Eristalis |
| Subgenus: | Eoseristalis |
| Species: | E. pertinax |
| Binomial name | |
| Eristalis pertinax (Scopoli, 1763) | |
| Synonyms | |
Eristalis pertinax is a European hoverfly. Like Eristalis tenax, the larva of E. pertinax is a rat-tailed maggot and lives in drainage ditches, pools around manure piles, sewage, and similar places containing water badly polluted with organic matter.
Description
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For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 8·25-12·75 mm.
Antennomere 3 brown-black.Arista plumose to tip.Tarsi 1 and 2 entirely yellow.
Wing with diffusely bordered darkened median band and pterostigma 4 times as
long as wide.Dimorphic (males with triangular abdomen, females with squarish abdomen).
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The male genitalia are figured by Hippa et al. (2001) [6] The larva is figured by Hartley (1961) [7]
Distribution
Palaearctic Fennoscandia South to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin.Ireland East through Europe into Turkey and European Russia East to the Urals. [8] [9]
Biology
The habitat is wetland, forest, alluvial forest, fen, farmland, suburban gardens and parks.[10] The flight period is February to November.
Gallery
- Females of a European hoverfly ovipositing at a small pool in a forest near Marburg, Hesse, Germany
References
- ↑ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Hippa, H., Nielsen, T.R. & van Steenis, J. (2001) The west Palaearctic species of the genus Eristalis Latreille (Diptera, Surphidae). Norw.J.Entomol., 48: 289-327.
- ↑ Hartley, J.C. (1961) A taxonomic account of the larvae of some British Syrphidae. Proc.zool.Soc.Lond.,136: 505-573.
- ↑ 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.