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Episyrphus balteatus De Geer

Description

Episyrphus balteatus (De Geer)

Material examined. Leg. A. Ricarte: 1♂, meadow along Moreda valley, 720 m, 29.v.2012; 1♂, Moreda valley, near Aula Naturaleza, Castanea sativa souto, 720 m, 23.v.2012 [NMS].

Eristalis horticola (De Geer) [(as E. lineata in Hippa et al. 2001)]

Material examined. Leg. A. Ricarte: 3♂, meadow along Moreda valley, 720 m, on flowers of Chaerophyllum hirsutum, 24.v.2012 (1♂), 28.v.2012 (1♂), 29.v.2012 (1♂) [NMS]. Leg. R.M. Lyszkowski: 1♂, nr. Pedra Boa, 750 m, 24.v.2012 [RL]. Leg. S.M. Hewitt: 1♂, Moreda Valley meadows, 21.v.2012 [CALMG].

Taxonomic notes. Two of the four males obtained were smaller and shared external characters and genitalia with Eristalis stackelbergi Doležil and Rozkošn, 1967, which is currently considered as a synonym of E. horticola (as E. lineata in Hippa et al. 2001).

Eristalis nemorum (Linnaeus) [(as E. interrupta in Hippa et al. 2001)]

Material examined. Leg. A. Ricarte: 1♂, meadow along Moreda valley, 28.v.2012 [NMS].

Notes

Published as part of Ricarte, Antonio, Rotheray, Graham E., Lyszkowski, Richard M., Hancock, E. Geoffrey, Hewitt, Stephen M., Watt, Kenneth R., Horsfield, David & Macgowan, Iain, 2014, The syrphids of Serra do Courel, Northern Spain and description of a new Cheilosia Meigen species (Diptera: Syrphidae), pp. 401-422 in Zootaxa 3793 (4) on pages 409-410, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3793.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/225393

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
De Geer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Episyrphus
Species
balteatus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Hippa, H., Nielsen, T. R. & van Steenis, J. (2001) The west Palaearctic species of the genus Eristalis Latreille (Diptera, Syrphidae). Norwegian Journal of Entomology, 48, 289 - 327.