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Species of fly

Eristalis abusiva
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Female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Eristalis
Species: E. abusiva
Binomial name
Eristalis abusiva
Collin, 1931

Eristalis abusiva is a European species of hoverfly. It is similar to Eristalis arbustorum.

Description

The wings are 8-9.5 mm in length. The scutellum is shiny. The face is covered with pale dust (there is a narrow black stripe here in worn specimens) on the lower part. The apical half of the arista is bare and the basal half is very short-haired. The eyes have pale yellow hairs. The female eyes are separated. The tibia are pale black on the basal quarter or less. Tibia 2 is very pale. The male genitalia are figured by Hippa et al. (2001). The larva is figured by Hartley (1961).

Distribution

Eristalis abusiva occurs from Palaearctic Fennoscandia and the Faroes (Jensen, 2001) south to North France, from Ireland eastwards through Europe and Russia to the Pacific coast.

Biology

The habitat is wetland, coastal fen and salt-marsh, marsh and fen, raised bog and cutover bog. Flowers visited include yellow composites, white umbellifers, Calluna vulgaris, Caltha, Cirsium, Erica, Potentilla erecta, Ranunculus, Rubus fruticosus, Salix repens, Stellaria, Spartina.

The flight period is beginning May to mid October. The larva is aquatic.

References

  1. Van Veen, M.P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (Hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8.
  2. Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
  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 Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Hippa, H., Nielsen, T.R. & van Steenis, J. (2001) The west Palaearctic species of the genus Eristalis Latreille (Diptera, Surphidae). Norw.J.Entomol., 48: 289-327.
  7. Hartley, J.C. (1961) A taxonomic account of the larvae of some British Syrphidae. Proc.zool.Soc.Lond.,136: 505-573.
  8. Fauna Europaea
  9. Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
  10. Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.
  11. de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. Doc.Trav. IRSNB, no.60, 1-167.
Taxon identifiers
Eristalis abusiva


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