Biology:Cynorhinella bella

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Short description: Species of fly

Cynorhinella bella
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Superfamily: Syrphoidea
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Eristalinae
Tribe: Milesiini
Genus: Cynorhinella
Species:
C. bella
Binomial name
Cynorhinella bella
(Williston, 1882)[1]
Cynorhinella bella map.png
Synonyms
  • Cynorhinella canadensis (Curran, 1922)[2]
  • Myioletpa bella Williston, 1882[1]
  • Myioletpa carbicolor Lovett, 1920[3]

Cynorhinella bella, the Western Longnose, is a species of hoverfly in the family Syrphidae.[4]

Description

Length 10 mm. Male.

Head

"Face chestnut brown, concave below the antennae with a prominent rounded tubercle about the middle, below which it is slightly produced to the not prominent oral margin ; side margins well defined, as in Chilosia, the facial slopes with fine whitish pollen, the side margins with sparse whitish pile ; cheeks and frontal triangle shining, concolorous with the face ; vertical triangle brown, the sides of the triangle about equal, with brown pile ; occiput shining chestnut, with whitish pile below and brownish above. "[1]

Thorax

" shining blueblack, the dorsum with yellow pile, which is intermixed with black on the middle, and black pile on the borders; pleurae yellowish brown, with yel- lowish pile, the pile black above. Scutellum concolorous with dorsum, with slightly longer black pile. " [1] "Abdomen narrow, and gradually narrowing after the second segment, in color shining blue-black, the posterior margins of the second and third segments a little more blackish on the median two-thirds ; hypopygium black. Pile of abdomen yellowish on basal angles, becoming white en the hypopygium, and black on the ends of the second and third segments." "Legs chestnut brown. Wings distinctly luteous (light to medium greenish tinge) ; stigma yellowish. Squamae and halteres white." from Williston [1]

Distribution

Canada , United States . (See range map.)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Williston, Samuel Wendell (1882). "Contribution to a monograph of the North American Syrphidae". Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 20 (112): 299-332. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26892329#page/311/mode/1up. Retrieved 23 July 2021.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.Curran, Charles Howard (1922). "New species of Canadian Syrphidae (Diptera). Pt. II". The Canadian Entomologist 54: 14-19. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27828012#page/22/mode/1up. Retrieved 24 July 2021. 
  3. Lovett, A.L. (1920). "Two new species of Syrphidae (Diptera).". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 10 (4): 51-52. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3137450#page/65/mode/1up. Retrieved 8 August 2021. 
  4. Skevington, J.H.; Locke, M.M.; Young, A.D.; Moran, K.; Crins, W.J.; Marshall, S.A (2019). Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. Princeton Field Guides (First ed.). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 512. ISBN 9780691189406. 

Wikidata ☰ Q13508871 entry