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Species of fly

Parhelophilus consimilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Parhelophilus
Species: P. consimilis
Binomial name
Parhelophilus consimilis
(Malm, 1863)

Parhelophilus consimilis is a Palearctic hoverfly.

Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 7 ·5-8 ·5 mm Apical 1/4 of front tibiae black. Tergite 1 with 2 diagonal dust bands. Face in lateral view protruding beyond frons. Reemer (2000) figures the male genitalia. See references for determination.

Distribution

Palearctic Fennoscandia South to Belgium and North France. Ireland East through Britain, Denmark, Poland and North Europe and Russia to eastern Siberia.

Biology

Habitat: Wetland. Fen, transition mire, bog, raised bog and cut-over bog. Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Bidens cernua, Menyanthes, Potentilla palustris, Ranunculus. Flies mid June to beginning August.

References

  1. Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. ISBN 1-899935-03-7.
  2. Ball, S.G.; Morris, R.K.A. (2000). Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae). Monks Wood, UK: Biological Record Centre. pp. 167 pages. ISBN 1-870393-54-6.
  3. Reemer, M. (2000) A new species of Parhelophilus Girschner, 1897 (Diptera, Syrphidae) from southwestern Europe. Dipteron, 3: 1-6.
  4. Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Coe, R.L. (1953) Diptera: Syrphidae. Handbks.ident.Br.insects, 10(1): 1-98. R.ent.Soc.London. pdf
  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
Parhelophilus consimilis


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