Blera analis

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Blera analis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Milesiini
Genus: Blera
Species:
B. analis
Binomial name
Blera analis
(Macquart, 1842) [1]
Synonyms

Blera analis, the orange-tailed wood fly, is an uncommon species of syrphid fly. It was officially described by Macquart, 1842. [1] Hoverflies get their names from their ability to remain nearly motionless while in flight. The adults are also known as flower flies for they are commonly found around and on flowers from which they get both energy-giving nectar and protein-rich pollen. The larvae are of the rat-tailed type feeding on exuding sap or in the rot holes of trees. [2]

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Distribution

They are found in northeastern North America. [3]

Description

For terms, see Morphology of Diptera .

This fly can be recognized by a yellow face, a shiny black thorax and a black abdomen that is widely orange at the apex and a length of between 9 and 13 mm. A similar appearing species Blera fallax is found in Europe.

Head

The frontal triangle of the male is bare and shining light orangish-yellow anteriorly, but broadly pollinose posteriorly. In the female the front is orangish-yellow, shining below and dusted and with a short yellowish pile above. The upper third of the vertex is blackish. The face is light orangish-yellow with a light dusting of white pile. The face is much projecting and shiny at antenna base. There is a black spot below the lower eye margin. The antennae are orangish-yellow, like the face, with the first and second joints with some black pile above. The flagellum is large and rounded. The arista is reddish-black. The antennal process, is gently convex in the middle. The eyes are reddish-brown. The eyes of the male are slightly holoptic while in the female the eyes are separated slightly. The occiput is black, dusted with white near the eyes.

Thorax

The scutum is entirely metallic greenish-black, covered with whitish pile. The white pile is denser along humeri (postpronotum). The pleurae have tufts of dense, short white hair dusted with white pollen.

Abdomen

The abdomen is shiny black with short black pile and orange apex. Segments two and three are black and have long white hair at the sides. Segment four is yellow-orange, with black V-shape at the base, center on male. The female has a larger black U-shape that is more rounded. Segment five is entirely yellow-orange with some black pile anterior but the rest is orange. The abdomen is bluish black, shining, with a short black pile, on the sides of the second segment longer and whitish. The black encroaches more or less on the fourth segment, usually forming a more or less triangular dilatation. The remainder of the abdomen is conspicuously orange-yellow, with the same colored pile.

Wing

The wings are hyaline with a yellowish tinge along the front edge. The vein R4+5 is almost straight and joins the costa just before the tip of the wing. The first posterior cell r4+5 is acute apically and extends almost to the wing margin before the tip.

Legs

The legs are chiefly black, with a black and light yellow pile. The femora are black, tips light yellow. The tibiae are brownish and densely covered with a white pile. The base and tips more yellowish-orange. The hind tibiae are more yellowish. The tarsi are light yellow, last joint black. The tip of femora and the base and end of the front and middle tibiae and the narrow base are light yellow. The end of the hind tibiae, and all the tarsi, except the last two joints are light yellow; The front and middle tibiae more brownish in the middle. [4] [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Macquart, Pierre-Justin-Marie (1842). Diptères exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. Tome deuxieme.--2e partie. Paris: Roret. pp. 5–140. Retrieved 6 July 2021.
  2. ↑ Skevington, Jeffrey H (2019). Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. ISBN   9780691189406.
  3. ↑ "Search". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-05-31.
  4. ↑ Curran, Charles Howard (1925). ""Contribution to a monograph of the American Syrphidae north of Mexico"". The Kansas University Science Bulletin. 15: 7–216.
  5. ↑ Williston, S.W. (1887). "Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 31: 1–335.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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