Biology:Pipiza bimaculata

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Short description: Species of fly

Pipiza bimaculata
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Pipiza bimaculata in Europäischen Zweiflügeligen (figure 14)
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Pipizinae
Tribe: Pipizini
Genus: Pipiza
Species:
P. bimaculata
Binomial name
Pipiza bimaculata
Meigen, 1822[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Pipiza chalybeata Meigen, 1822
  • Pipiza geniculata Meigen, 1822
  • Pipiza guttata Meigen, 1822

Pipiza bimaculata is a species of hoverfly, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera.[2]

Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 4·5–6 ·5 mm. Abdomen large yellow spots. Tarsae 1 all segments black. Face not broadened towards mouth edge with eye margins parallel. Wing diffusely infuscated or hyaline. 3rd segment of antenna longer than wide. See references for determination.[3][4][5][6]

Distribution

Palearctic Atlantic Europe. All Europe if older determinations are correct.[7][8]

Biology

Habitat:Quercus woodland. Flowers visited include Ranunculus. [9] Flies May to June .[10]

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. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/49298#page/7/mode/1up. Retrieved 14 April 2019. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Chandler, Peter J. (1998). Checklists of Insects of the British Isles (New Series) Part 1: Diptera. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. 12. London: Royal Entomological Society of London. pp. 1–234. ISBN 0-901546-82-8. 
  3. Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
  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
  8. Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11–230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
  9. de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. Doc.Trav. IRSNB, no.60, 1–167.
  10. 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. 

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