Fagisyrphus

Fagisyrphus cinctus is a European species of hoverfly. This species has a muddled taxonomic history. Older authors treated it as a member of the genus Melangyna, and later sources in Meligramma (as either a separate genus or a subgenus of Melangyna), but the most recent sources recognize it as the sole species in its own monotypic genus, Fagisyrphus.[1]

Fagisyrphus
male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Subfamily: Syrphinae
Tribe: Syrphini
Genus: Fagisyrphus
Species:
F. cinctus
Binomial name
Fagisyrphus cinctus
(Fallén, 1817)
Synonyms
  • Scaeva cincta Fallén, 1817
  • Melangyna cincta (Fallén, 1817)
  • Meligramma cincta (Fallén, 1817)
  • Syrphus placidus Meigen, 1822

Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 6 ·25–8·75 mm. Tergites 3 and 4 with yellow to orange bands. Tergite 2 with two yellow, triangular marks. Elongate abdomen. See references for determination.[2] [3] [4] [5] The male genitalia are figured by Dusek and Laska (1967).[6] The larva is figured in colour by Rotheray (1994).[7]

Distribution

Palearctic Fennoscandia South to Iberia and the Mediterranean. Ireland Eastwards through Europe into European Russia, the Crimea and Turkey. [8][9]

Biology

Habitat: Fagus and Quercus woodland.[10] Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Acer pseudoplatanus, Crataegus, Ligustrum, Malus sylvestris, Prunus spinosa, Rubus idaeus, Salix, Sambucus nigra, Sorbus aucupariae, Urtica dioica, Viburnus opulus.[11] The flight period is April to July in two generations. The larva feeds on aphids.

References
  1. Skevington, J.H.; Locke, M.M.; Young, A.D.; Moran, K.; Crins, W.J.; Marshall, S.A (2019). Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America. Princeton Field Guides (First ed.). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 512. ISBN 9780691189406.
  2. Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
  3. Van der Goot,V.S. (1981) De zweefvliegen van Noordwest - Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van de Benelux. KNNV, Uitgave no.32: 275pp. Amsterdam.
  4. Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR, Volume V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Part I. Amerind Publishing Co., New Delhi. ISBN 81-205-0080-6.
  5. Coe, R.L. (1953) Diptera: Syrphidae. Handbks.ident.Br.insects, 10(1): 1-98. R.ent.Soc.London. pdf
  6. Dusek, J. & Laska, P. (1967) Versuch zum aufbau eines Naturlichen Systems mitteleuropaischer Arten der Unterfamilie Syrphinae (Diptera). Acta sc.nat.Brno, 1: 349-390.
  7. Rotheray G., 1993 Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae Diptera, Syrphidae in Britain and Europe Dipterists Forum pdf
  8. Fauna Europaea
  9. Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
  10. Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the Database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.
  11. de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. Doc.Trav. IRSNB, no.60, 1-167.


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