Sphegina clunipes

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Sphegina clunipes
Sphegina clunipes, Trawscoed, North Wales, May 2011 (16894563224).jpg
Sphegina clunipes female Trawscoed, North Wales
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Brachyopini
Subtribe: Spheginina
Genus: Sphegina
Species:
S. clunipes
Binomial name
Sphegina clunipes
(Fallen, 1816) [1]
Synonyms

Sphegina clunipes is a Palearctic species of hoverfly. [4] [5]

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Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Males: The abdomen bulges only slightly at end. The width to tergite 4 about equal to length of sternite 4 and in the form of a slightly broadened rectangle toward back side, about twice as long as wide. Frons relatively broad. Surstyli narrow and long; length about four times width. Females: width of sternite 4 about 1.5 times length. Body length 6.0 to 7.0mm. See references for determination. [6] [7] [8] [9]

Distribution

Palearctic Fennoscandia South to the Pyrenees and Spain. Ireland East through Central Europe and Southern Europe into European Russia and the Caucasus; through Siberia and the Russian Far East to Japan. [10] [11]

Habitat

Woodland.

Biology

Flies up to 2m from in dappled sunlight or shade at the edge of clearings, in woodland glades, along tracks and beside streams usually near water from May to September. Flowers visited include Cardamine pratensis , Crataegus , Euphorbia , Geranium pratense , Geranium robertianum , Potentilla erecta , Prunus spinosa , Ranunculus , Rubus fruticosus , Sanicula , Stachys , Veronica . [12]

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References

  1. 1 2 Fallen, C.F. (1816). Syrphici Sveciae. Lundae [= Lund]: Berlingianis. pp. 1–30.
  2. ↑ Macquart, P. J. M. (1834). Histoire Naturelle des insectes. Dipteres. Tome premiere. Paris: Roret. pp. 578 + 8 pp., 12 pls.
  3. ↑ Macquart, P.J.M. Insectes diptères du nord de la France. Syrphies. Vol. 1829. Lille: "1827". pp. 223 pp., 4 pls. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  4. ↑ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. ISBN   1-899935-03-7.
  5. ↑ Ball, S.G.; Morris, R.K.A. (2000). Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae). Monks Wood, UK: Biological Record Centre. pp. 167 pages. ISBN   1-870393-54-6.
  6. ↑ Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ Coe, R.L. (1953) Diptera: Syrphidae. Handbks.ident.Br.insects, 10(1): 1-98. R.ent.Soc.London. pdf
  10. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  11. ↑ Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
  12. ↑ Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.


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