| Didea fasciata | |
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| Didea fasciata male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Genus: | Didea |
| Species: | D. fasciata |
| Binomial name | |
| Didea fasciata Macquart, 1834 | |
Didea fasciata is a Holarctic species of hoverfly. [1] [2] [3]
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 8·25– 11 mm. Halteres with yellow knob. Face yellow, at most the tip of the central knob dark. [4] [5] [6] [7] The male genitalia are figured by Vockeroth (1969). [8] The Larva is described and figured by Heiss (1938) . [9]
Palaearctic and Nearctic. Fennoscandia South to Spain; Italy and Greece. Ireland eastwards through Russia and the Russian Far East to the Pacific coast. North America from British Columbia South to New Mexico and East to New York. Oriental region to North India and Formosa [10] [11] [12]
Habitat: Deciduous and coniferous forest, tracksides, clearings. [13] Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Arbutus unedo, Chaerophyllum, Crataegus, Galium, Hedera, Hypochoeris, Polygonum cuspidatum, Rubus fruticosus, Rubus idaeus, Sambucus, Urtica dioica, Viburnum opulus. [14] The flight period is May to September. The aphid feeding larvae are arboreal, on both conifers and deciduous trees.
Myathropa florea, sometimes referred to as the Batman hoverfly, is a very common European and North African species of hoverfly. Adults may be seen on flowers from May to September. It is of a similar size to the common drone fly, but Myathropa are generally more yellow, with two light bands to the thorax, interrupted with a black central smudge. In museum specimens, any yellow colour soon fades to brown after death. Like most species in the tribe Eristalini, Myathropa are rather variable in size, shape and colour.
Eristalis intricaria is a European species of hoverfly. It is a furry bee mimic, superficially resembling Merodon, though Merodon have all black leg tibiae, as opposed to partly yellow. E. intricaria is somewhat variable in colour pattern, and some attempts at naming varieties have been tentatively made. Flight time of adults in the UK are from March to September. It is generally widespread, but is seldom seen in large numbers. Habitat is woodland or marshland.
Dasysyrphus albostriatus is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.
Epistrophe eligans is a European species of hoverfly.
Leucozona laternaria is a European species of hoverfly.
Leucozona lucorum is a Palearctic and Nearctic species of hoverfly.
Meliscaeva auricollis is a West Palearctic species of hoverfly.
Meliscaeva cinctella is a Holarctic species of hoverfly.
Epistrophe grossulariae is a Holarctic species of hoverfly.
Parasyrphus lineolus is a Holarctic species of hoverfly.
Platycheirus ambiguus is a small widespread species of hoverfly found across the Palearctic from Ireland to Japan. A spring species found in flight in April and May, it visits spring-flowering trees and shrubs; e.g., Prunus spinosa in deciduous woodland and scrub.
Melangyna arctica is a Holarctic species of hoverfly.
Meligramma guttatum is a Holarctic species of hoverfly.
Megasyrphus erraticus is a Holarctic species of hoverfly associated with mature conifer woodlands and plantations.
Didea alneti is a Holarctic species of hoverfly.
Doros profuges is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.
Epistrophe nitidicollis is a European and North American species of hoverfly.
Eumerus funeralis or lesser bulb fly is a species of Hoverfly, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera. E. funeralis appears in Peck (1988) as a synonym of E. strigatus (Fallen), but was reinstated as the correct name for tuberculatus Rondani, sensu auctorum by Speight et al. (1998).
Eumerus strigatus ,, the Onion Bulb Fly , is a fairly common species of syrphid fly observed across Europe. Also found in north-central North America and other scattered locations as an introduced species from infested bulbs. Syrphid flies are also known as Hover Flies or Flower Flies because the adults are frequently found hovering around flowers from which they feed on nectar and pollen. The larvae feed on various bulbs. .
Cheilosia impressa is a Palearctic species of hoverfly. Like most members of its genus C. impressa is a rather small, dark insect and identification can be problematic.
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