Epistrophella emarginata

Epistrophella emarginata is a common North American species of hoverfly.[1] Larvae are aphid predators [2] When laying eggs, the female oviposits on the petioles of a leaf.[3]

Epistrophella emarginata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Epistrophella
Species:
E. emarginata
Binomial name
Epistrophella emarginata
(Say, 1823)
Synonyms
  • Scaeva emarginata Say, 1823
  • Syrphus disjectus Williston, 1887
  • Syrphus disjunctus Williston, 1882
  • Syrphus infuscatus Fluke, 1931
  • Syrphus invigorus Curran, 1921
  • Syrphus maculifrons Bigot, 1884
  • Syrphus weborgi Fluke, 1931
  • Xanthogramma aenea Jones, 1907
  • Xanthogramma divisa Williston, 1882
  • Xanthogramma felix Osten Sacken, 1875

Distribution
USA distribution map

USA: D.C., Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Canada: Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick Central America: Mexico, El Salvador
[4]

References
  1. Vockeroth, J.R. (1992). The Flower Flies of the Subfamily Syrphinae of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Diptera: Syrphidae). Part 18. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Government Pub Centre. pp. 1–456. ISBN 0-660-13830-1.
  2. Heiss, Elizabeth Madeleine (1938). "A classification of the larvae and puparia of the Syrphidae of Illinois exclusive of aquatic forms". Series: Illinois biological monographs. 16: 1–142.
  3. Almohamad, Raki; Verheggen, François; Haubruge, Eric (2009). "Searching and oviposition behavior of aphidophagous hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae): a review". Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement. 13 (3). ISSN 1370-6233. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  4. Epistrophella emarginata
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.