Biology:Cheilosia pagana

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Cheilosia pagana
Cheil.pagana male1.jpg
male
Cheilosia.pagana2.-.lindsey.jpg
female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Syrphidae
Subfamily:
Eristalinae
Tribe:
Rhingiini
Genus:
Cheilosia
Species:
C. pagana
Binomial name
Cheilosia pagana
(Meigen, 1822)[1]
Synonyms
  • Cheilosia floccosa (Verrall, 1901)
  • Cheilosia means Walker, 1851
  • Cheilosia pulchripes Loew, 1857
  • Chilosia floccosa Verrall, 1901
  • Syrphus paganus Meigen, 1822[1]

Cheilosia pagana is a Holarctic species of hoverfly. Like most Cheilosia it is black, and because of this may often be overlooked as a hoverfly.[2] One identifying feature is a large red to orange 3rd antennal segment.[3]

Description

For terms see Morphology of Diptera

Wing length 4.75-8·5 mm. Antennae with third segment clear orange and very large:no furrow. Frons flat in male. Thoracic pubescence variable. Female scutellum entirely black. Legs part yellow. Tarsi 1 with pale central segments pale. Part of the pagana species group.[4] [5][6]

Distribution

Present in most of Europe and in the eastern Palearctic realm.[7] East to Siberia.[8] Nearctic[9] [10]

Riverside habitat.Ireland.

Biology

Habitat: coniferous and deciduous woodland, unimproved grassland, along hedgerows in farmland and at roadsides. Scrub and carr.[11] Flowers visited include yellow composites, Ranunculaceae, white umbellifers, Allium ursinum, Anemone nemorosa, Fragaria, Potentilla erecta, Primula, Prunus spinosa and Salix.[12] Flight period is from May to September. In southern Europe, on the wing from mid March. Larvae are known to inhabit semi-liquid, decaying tissue of the roots of plants. There is a rearing record from decaying roots of Cow Parsley.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1822). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. x, 416, pls. 22–32. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49298#page/7/mode/1up. Retrieved 14 April 2019. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. 
  3. ↑ Van Veen, M.P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. pp. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8. 
  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. (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.
  6. ↑ Coe, R.L. (1953) Diptera: Syrphidae. Handbks.ident.Br.insects, 10(1): 1-98. R.ent.Soc.London. pdf
  7. ↑ "Fauna Europaea". https://fauna-eu.org/t/. 
  8. ↑ Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
  9. ↑ "Nearctic Syrphidae Checklist". http://www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphidae/Syrphidae_Nearctic_Checklist.htm. 
  10. ↑ "Cheilosia pagana species information". https://www.gbif.org/species/1539941. Retrieved 2023-02-02. 
  11. ↑ Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)". Syrph the Net, the Database of European Syrphidae 65: 285pp. http://www.diptera.info/downloads/StN_Species_Accounts_Glasgow_2011.pdf. 
  12. ↑ 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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