Eristalis flavipes

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Eristalis flavipes
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Female
Eristalis flavipes-male.jpg
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Syrphidae
Subfamily:
Eristalinae
Tribe:
Eristalini
Subtribe:
Genus:
Eristalis
Species:
E. flavipes
Binomial name
Eristalis flavipes
Walker, 1849
Synonyms
  • Eristalis americanus Loew, 1866
  • Eristalis melanostomus Hull, 1925
  • Eristalis rufipilis Osten Sacken, 1878
  • Musca tomentosa Gott, 1964

Eristalis flavipes, the orange-legged drone fly, is a species of hoverfly native to North America.[1] It flies from early April to mid-October, and occur in a wide variety of habitats, particularly wetlands.[1] E. flavipes measures 11-16 mm in length.[1]

Description[]

Eristalis flavipes strongly like bumblebees
For terms see Morphology of Diptera.

Length
13 to 17 mm.
Head
Face and cheeks and facial stripe are shining black with short yellow pile. Antennae are dark brown and plumose basally. Eyes are broadly contiguous in the male, with eye pile confined mostly to a vertical stripe.
Thorax
Mesonotum, pleurae, and scutellum, with very abundant, long, bright yellow pile over shining black except the center of mesonotum nearly hairless. Scutellum is wholly light yellow.
Abdomen
Abdomen is a deep shining black with the second segment dark red and covered with long black hairs with some yellow hairs intermixed..
Wings
Wings are hyaline with luteous veins female, with a large brown spot central part of wing. Vein R 4+5 loops into cell r 4+5.
Legs
Deep black, with black pile. Knees reddish, anterior tarsi brown, middle and posterior tarsi light reddish-yellow. Hind femora somewhat elongate, hind tibiae bent.

[2][3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Skevington, Jeffrey H.; Locke, Michelle M.; Young, Andrew D.; Moran, Kevin; Crins, William J.; Marshall, Stephen A. (2019). Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691189406.
  2. ^ Williston, S.W. (1887). "Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 31: 1–335.
  3. ^ Hull, Frank Montgomery (1925). "A Review of the Genus Eristalis Latreille in North America". The Ohio Journal of Science. 25: 11–45. hdl:1811/2257.

Further reading[]

  • Ross H. Arnett (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-0212-1.
  • Eristalis (Diptera: Syrphidae) from America North of Mexico, Telford H.S. 1970. Ann. Ent. Soc. Am. 63(5): 1201-1210.

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