Paragus (Pandasyopthalmus) haemorrhous Meigen 1822
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Paragus (Pandasyopthalmus) haemorrhous Meigen, 1822
Paragus haemorrhous Meigen, 1822: 182. Type locality: Austria & France.
Paragus sigillatus Curtis, 1836: 593. Type locality: England (Darent).
Paragus trianguliferus Zetterstedt, 1838: 3. Type locality: Sweden (Novacculum Umenaes).
Paragus substitutus Loew, 1858: 376. Type locality: South Africa (Eastern Cape [as "Caffraria"]).
Paragus tamagawanus Matsumura, 1916: 9. Japan (Honshu: Tamagawa).
Paragus pallipes Matsumura, 1916: 11. Type localities: Russia (Sakhalin) & Japan (Honshu: Tokyo, Towada).
Paragus ogasawarae Matsumura, 1916: 13. Type localities: Japan (Honshu: Iwate).
Paragus coreanus Shiraki, 1930: 250. Type localities: Korea (Koryo, Kongo, Shakuoji).
Material examined: 1 male, Wadi El Zohleiga, 2.V.1925, leg. Efflatoun (specimen published in Shaumar & Kamal (1978)) [EFC]; 1 female, Kafr Hakim, 10.VI.1924, leg. Efflatoun (specimen published in Shaumar & Kamal (1978)) [PPDD].
World distribution: AF: Widespread. NE: N America from the Yukon south to Costa Rica. PA: Afghanistan, Egypt, Europe (Widespread), Israel, Japan, Korea.
Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Mariout. Eastern Desert: Suez Road, Wadi Hoff, Wadi Ibtadi, Wadi Rishrash, Wadi Zohleiga. Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Abu-Rawash, El-Mansoura, Ezbet El-Nakhl, Kafr Hakim, Kirdassa, Shubra. [Source: Shaumar & Kamal (1978)].
Activity period in Egypt: March to October.
Remarks: Adults fly low through ground vegetation, with a darting, erratic and weaving flight. Males usually hover close to the ground or close to the foliage of low-growing plants and settles on foliage or the ground. In Europe, this species usually visits the flowers of the Umbelliferae, Matricaria, Origanum, Polygonum, Potentilla, Solidago and Stellaria (De Buck 1990; Speight 2017).
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- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Paragus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Meigen
- Species
- haemorrhous
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- species
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- Paragus (Pandasyopthalmus) haemorrhous Meigen, 1822 sec. El-Hawagry & Gilbert, 2019
References
- Meigen, J. W. (1822) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Vol. 3. Schultz- Wundermann, Hamm, 416 pp.
- Zetterstedt, J. W. (1838) Dipterologis Scandinaviae. Sect. 3. Diptera. Insecta Lapponica, 1838, 477 - 868
- Loew, H. (1858) Bidrag till kannedomen om Afrikas Diptera (part). Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, 14 (9), 337 - 383.
- Shiraki, T. (1930) Die syrphiden des japanischen Kaiserreichs, mit Berucksichtung benachbarter gebiete. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Taihoku Imperial University, 1, 1 - 446.
- Shaumar, N. & Kamal, S. (1978) The Syrphidae of Egypt. Bulletin Mensuel de la Societe Linneenne de Lyon, 47, 79 - 84. https: // doi. org / 10.3406 / linly. 1978.10295
- De Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor Belgie. Studiedocumenten van het K. B. I. N., Brussel, 167 pp.
- Speight, M. C. D. (2017) Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera). In: Speight, M. C. D., Castella, E., Sarthou, J. - P. & Vanappelghem, C. (Eds.), Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. Vol. 97. Syrph the Net Publication, Dublin, 294 pp.