Biology:Pipizella viduata

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Short description: Species of fly

Pipizella viduata
Pipizella viduata, Sealand Ranges, North Wales, May 2012 (17329434608).jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Pipizella
Species:
P. viduata
Binomial name
Pipizella viduata
Synonyms[1]
  • Heringia geniculata Curtis, 1837
  • Musca viduata Linnaeus, 1758
  • Pipiza varipes Meigen, 1822
  • Pipizella geniculata (Curtis, 1837)
  • Pipizella varipes (Meigen, 1822)

Pipizella viduata is a species of Hoverfly, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera.[1]

Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 3 ·7 5-5 ·25 mm Genitalia figured by Van Veen (refs), small species, basitarsi dusky or dark brown. See references for determination.[2][3][4][5]

Distribution

Palearctic Fennoscandia South to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin. Ireland East Europe into European Russia and the Caucasus then to Siberia.[6][7]

Biology

Woodland, scrub, dune grassland, heathland and unimproved pasture, grassy clearings in woodland Flowers visited include umbellifers, Euphorbia, Galium, Potentilla erecta.[8] Flies April to October[9]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 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. 
  2. Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Coe, R.L. (1953) Diptera: Syrphidae. Handbks.ident.Br.insects, 10(1): 1-98. R.ent.Soc.London. pdf
  6. Fauna Europaea
  7. Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
  8. de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. Doc.Trav. IRSNB, no.60, 1-167.
  9. 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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