Eristalis pertinax

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Eristalis pertinax
Eristalis.pertinax male.jpg
male
Eristalis.pertinax.female.jpg
female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Syrphidae
Genus:
Eristalis
Subgenus:
Species:
E. pertinax
Binomial name
Eristalis pertinax
(Scopoli, 1763)
Synonyms

Eristalis pertinax is a European hoverfly. Like Eristalis tenax, the larva of E. pertinax is a rat-tailed maggot and lives in drainage ditches, pools around manure piles, sewage, and similar places containing water with high organic load and low oxygen concentration.

Description[]

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 8.25–12.75 mm. Antennomere 3 brown-black. Arista plumose to tip. Tarsi 1 and 2 entirely yellow. Wing with diffusely bordered darkened median band and pterostigma 4 times as long as wide. Dimorphic (males with triangular abdomen, females with squarish abdomen).[2][3][4][5] The male genitalia are figured by Hippa et al. (2001).[6] The larva is figured by Hartley (1961).[7]

Distribution[]

Palaearctic Fennoscandia South to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin. Ireland East through Europe into Turkey and European Russia East to the Urals.[8][9]

Biology[]

The habitat is wetland, forest, alluvial forest, fen, farmland, suburban gardens and parks.[10] The flight period is February to November.

Gallery[]

  • Females of a European hoverfly ovipositing at a small pool in a forest near Marburg, Hesse, Germany

References[]

  1. ^ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
  2. ^ Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
  3. ^ Van der Goot,V.S. (1981) De zweefvliegen van Noordwest - Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van de Benelux. Koninklijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 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. Handbooks for Identification of British Insects, 10(1): 1–98. Royal Entomological Society of London. pdf
  6. ^ Hippa, H., Nielsen, T.R. & van Steenis, J. (2001) "The west Palaearctic species of the genus Eristalis Latreille (Diptera, Surphidae)". Norwegian Journal of Entomology, 48: 289–327.
  7. ^ Hartley, J.C. (1961) "A taxonomic account of the larvae of some British Syrphidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 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.


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