Biology:Xylota jakutorum

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Xylota jakutorum
Xylota jakutorum - Pine Leafwalker.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Milesiini
Subtribe: Xylotina
Genus: Xylota
Species:
X. jakutorum
Binomial name
Xylota jakutorum
Bagachanova, 1980[1]

Xylota jakutorum is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.[2]

Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Antero-dorsal hairs on the hind femora all shorter than half of the maximum depth of femur, longer hairs confined to the basal 1/5 of the femur length; posterior anepisternum dusted. Bartsch et al. figure the genitalia of jakutorum and the closely similar Xylota caeruleiventris [3] Van Veen provides an identification key.[4]

Distribution

Fennoscandia South to the Pyrenees and Italy, Ireland East through Central Europe to European Russia and on to Siberia.[5]

References

  1. Bagachanova, A.K. (1980). "New species of Syrphidae (Diptera) from Central Yakutia". Entomologicheskoi Obozrenie 59 (2): 421-427. 
  2. Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. 
  3. Bartsch, H., Nielsen, T.R. & Speight, M.C.D. (2002) Reappraisal of Xylota caeruleiventris Zetterstedt, 1838, with remarks on the distribution of this species and X.jakutorum Bagatshanova, 1980 in Europe. Volucella, 6: 69-80.
  4. Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
  5. 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. 

Wikidata ☰ Q8045548 entry