Chrysotoxum festivum

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Chrysotoxum festivum
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Chrysotoxum
Species:
C. festivum
Binomial name
Chrysotoxum festivum
Synonyms

Chrysotoxum festivum is a species of hoverfly. [1]

Identification

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 8·25–12 mm. Wing with a small, square, dark spot. Thorax with two grey longitudinal stripes. Katepisternum normally with yellow spot. Apical antennomere shorter than antennomeres 1 and 2 together.

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Keys and accounts

Distribution

Palaearctic Fennoscandia South to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin. Ireland eastwards through Europe into Greece, Turkey and European Russia then through Siberia to the Pacific coast. Japan. North India. [6]

Biology

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Habitat.Italy

Habitat :Deciduous woodland clearings and open areas in scrub woodland. Grassland with scrub. [7] Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Calluna, Chaerophyllum, Cirsium arvense , Euphorbia, Galium, Hieracium, Hypochoeris, Narthecium, Origanum, Potentilla erecta , Ranunculus, Rosa rugosa , Rubus idaeus , Sambucus nigra , Senecio, Solidago canadensis and Solidago virgaurea . [8]

The flight period is May to September, with peaks in June and August.

References

  1. ↑ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
  2. ↑ Coe, R.L. (1953) Diptera: Syrphidae. Handbks.ident.Br.insects, 10(1): 1-98. R.ent.Soc.London.pdf Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988a) 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.
  6. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  7. ↑ Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the Database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.
  8. ↑ de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. Doc.Trav. IRSNB, no.60, 1-167.
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