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Chrysotoxum ELEGANS LOEW 1841

Description

CHRYSOTOXUM ELEGANS LOEW, 1841: 140

Diagnostic features (Fig. 3C–D)

Mesoscutum covered with mixed long yellow and black hairs; fasciae clearly reaching lateral margins of tergites (or ending just before the lateral margin, but the lateral margin is always partly yellow).

Genitalia: Ventral margin of surstylus less concave than in C. festivum and C. tomentosum.

Habitat

Deciduous forest/open ground, mesophilous/thermophilous deciduous forest and dry, unimproved grassland with scrub, on well-drained sites (Speight, 2012).

Range

Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean; through central and southern Europe into European parts of Russia as far as the Caucasus Mountains and into Turkey (Speight, 2012).

Notes

Published as part of Nedeljković, Zorica, Ačanski, Jelena, Vujić, Ante, Obreht, Dragana, Ðan, Mihajla, Ståhls, Gunilla & Radenković, Snežana, 2013, Taxonomy of Chrysotoxum festivum Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Syrphidae) - an integrative approach, pp. 84-102 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (1) on page 97, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12052, http://zenodo.org/record/4720360

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References

  • Loew H. 1841. Uber die gattung. Chrysotoxum. Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 2: 136 - 141.
  • Speight MCD. 2012. Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera), 2012. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. Dublin: Syrph the Net publications.