Cheilosia nigripes

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Cheilosia nigripes
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Cheilosia
Species:
C. nigripes
Binomial name
Cheilosia nigripes
(Meigen, 1822) [1]
Synonyms
  • Syrphus tropicus Meigen, 1822
  • Eristalis schmidtii Zetterstedt, 1843
  • Eristalis lugubris Zetterstedt, 1838
  • Cartosyrphus castaneiventris Bigot, 1884
  • Chilosia minuta Hellen, 1914 [2]

Cheilosia nigripes is a Palearctic hoverfly.

Description

Very similar to Cheilosia vicina with a black body bare eyes, black legs and fused antennal pits. The central prominence of the face gently slopes downwards (not retrousse). Male: all the thorax hairs black the tergites with fine punctures. Female:thorax with mainly dark hairs and tergites with coarse punctures. Wing length 6·25-7·5 mm [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

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Distribution and biology

From Fennoscandia south to the Pyrenees; from England eastwards through Central and Southern Europe (north Italy, Yugoslavia) into Turkey and European Russia through Siberia and the Russian Far East to the Pacific. [10] [11] The habitat is open grassy areas in Fagus , Abies and Picea forest up to the lowest levels of subalpine grassland. Flowers visited include white umbellifers Prunus padus , Ranunculus , Rubus idaeus , Taraxacum . Flies May to June, later at higher altitudes. The larva is undescribed.

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References

  1. Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1822). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. x, 416, pls. 22–32. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
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  9. Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
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