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Wing length 8·25– 11 mm. Halteres with yellow knob. Face yellow, at most the tip of the central knob dark.[4][5][6][7] The male genitalia are figured by Vockeroth (1969).[8] The Larva is described and figured by Heiss (1938) .[9]
Distribution
Palaearctic and Nearctic. Fennoscandia South to Spain; Italy and Greece. Ireland eastwards through Russia and the Russian Far East to the Pacific coast. North America from British Columbia South to New Mexico and East to New York. Oriental region to North India and Formosa[10][11][12]
Habitat: Deciduous and coniferous forest, tracksides, clearings.[13]
Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Arbutus unedo, Chaerophyllum, Crataegus, Galium, Hedera, Hypochoeris, Polygonum cuspidatum, Rubus fruticosus, Rubus idaeus, Sambucus, Urtica dioica, Viburnum opulus.[14]
The flight period is May to September. The aphid feeding larvae are arboreal, on both conifers and deciduous trees.
↑Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
↑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.
↑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. Шаблон:ISBN.
↑Vockeroth J.R. (1969) A revision of the genera of the Syrphini (Diptera: Syrphidae).Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 62: 1 –176.
↑Heiss, E.M. (1938) A classification of the larvae and puparia of the Syrphidae of Illinois exclusive of aquatic forms. Univ.Illinois Bull. , 36: 1-142.
↑de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het
bijzonder voor België. Doc.Trav. IRSNB, no.60, 1-167.
