Eristalis (Eristalis) tenax Linnaeus 1758
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Eristalis (Eristalis) tenax Linnaeus, 1758
Musca tenax Linnaeus, 1758: 591. Type locality: Sweden.
Conops vulgaris Scopoli, 1763: 354. Type locality: Slovenia.
Musca porcina De Geer, 1776: 98. Unjustified new name of tenax.
Musca apiformis Geoffroy, 1785: 488. Type locality: Sweden.
Eristalis campestris Meigen, 1822: 387. Type locality: Germany & Austria.
Eristalis hortorum Meigen, 1822: 387. Type locality: Germany.
Eristalis sylvaticus Meigen, 1822: 388. Type locality: Austria.
Eristalis vulpinus Meigen, 1822: 388. Type locality: Austria.
Eristalis cognatus Wiedemann, 1824: 37. Type locality: India (Tranquebar).
Eristalis sinensis Wiedemann, 1824: 37. Type locality: China.
Eristalis nili Rondani, 1850: 166. Type locality: Egypt.
Eristalis columbica Macquart, 1855: 108. Type locality: Colombia.
Eristalis ventralis Thomson, 1869: 489. Type locality: China.
Eristalis tenax var. alpinus Strobl, 1893: 185. Type locality: Austria.
Eristalis claripes Abréu, 1924: 104. Type locality: Canary Is.
Material examined: 1 male, Arish, 6.V.1934, leg. Shafik; 1 female, Ismailia, 7.IV.1926, leg. Tewfik; 1 female, Wadi Rishrash, 21.VI.1932, leg. Tewfik; [EFC].
World distribution: Cosmopolitan, known from all regions except the Antarctic.
Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Alexandria, Mariout. Eastern Desert: Ismailiya, Wadi Hoff, Wadi Rishrash.
Fayoum: Fayoum City, Kom Osheem. Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Cairo, El-Gebel El-Asfar, El-Marg, Embaba, Ezbet El-Nakhl, Kombira, Shubra. Sinai: El-Arish. [Sources: Efflatoun 1922, Shaumar & Kamal 1978 and the examined museum material].
Activity period in Egypt: Throughout the year.
Remarks: E. tenax is the most widely distributed syrphid in Egypt (Efflatoun 1922). Adults fly up to 5m from ground, spending a considerable amount of time resting on flowers and foliage, and in the evenings can be found sunning on the foliage of bushes and shrubs (Speight 2017). A wide range of flowers is visited by this species, including white, yellow, pink and blue blooms (De Buck, 1990). The rat-tailed larvae filter bacteria from water polluted by decaying organic matter, such as sewage treatment ponds (Aguilera et al. 1999).
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Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1926-04-07 , 1932-06-21 , 1934-05-06
- Family
- Syrphidae
- Genus
- Eristalis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Diptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- tenax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1926-04-07 , 1932-06-21 , 1934-05-06
- Taxonomic concept label
- Eristalis (Eristalis) tenax Linnaeus, 1758 sec. El-Hawagry & Gilbert, 2019
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Tomus I. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 828 pp.
- Scopoli, J. A. (1763) Entomologia carniolica exhibens insecta carnioliae indigena et distribute in ordines, genera, species, varietates. Methodo Linnaeana. Trattner, Vindobonae [= Vienna], 420 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 119976
- De Geer, C. (1776) Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes. Tome Sixieme. P. Hesselberg, Stockholm, viii + 523 pp.
- Geoffroy, E. L. (1785) Entomologia Parisiensis, sive catalogus Insectorum quae in agro parisiensi reperiuntus. Vols. 1 - 2. Via et Aedibus Serpentineis, Paris, viii + 544 pp.
- Meigen, J. W. (1822) Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europaischen zweiflugeligen Insekten. Vol. 3. Schultz- Wundermann, Hamm, 416 pp.
- Wiedemann, C. R. W. (1824) Munus rectoris in Academia Christiana Albertina aditurus analecta entomologica ex Museo Regio Havniensi maximw congesta profert iconibusque illustrat. Eregio typoguapheo scholarum, Kiliae [= Kiel], 60 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 77322
- Macquart, P. J. M. (1855) Dipteres exotiques nouveaux ou peu connus. 5. e supplement. Memoires de la Societe des Sciences, Agriculture et des Arts, de Lille, Series 2, 1, 25 - 156.
- Thomson, C. G. (1869) Diptera. Species nova descripsit. In: Kongliga Svenska Vetenskraps-Akademien, Kongliga svenska fregatten Eugenies resa omkring jorden. Pt. 2. Zoologie. [Sec.] 1. Insekter. P. A. Norstedt & Soner, Stockholm, 617 pp.
- Strobl, P. G. (1893) Die Dipteren von Steiermark I. Mitteilungen Naturwiss Verein fur Steiermark, 29, 1 - 199.
- Santos Abreu, E. (1924) Monografia de los Syrphidos de las Islas Canarias, Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona, Series 3, 19 (1), 1 - 148.
- Efflatoun, H. C. (1922) A Monograph of Egyptian Diptera. (Part I. Fam. Syrphidae). Memoires de la Societe Entomologique d'Egypte, 2, 1 - 123.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Aguilera, A., Cid, A., Regueiro, B. J., Prieto, J. M. & Noya, M. (1999) Intestinal Myiasis Caused by Eristalis tenax. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 37 (9), 3082.