Dasysyrphus venustus

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Diptera
Family:Syrphidae
Dasysyrphus venustus
Dasysyrphus venustus female
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Dasysyrphus
Species:
D. venustus
Binomial name
Dasysyrphus venustus
(Meigen, 1822)
Synonyms
  • Dasysyrphus arcuatus (Fallén, 1817)
  • Dasysyrphus hilaris authors
  • Dasysyrphus lunulatus (Meigen, 1822)
  • Scaeva arcuatus Fallén, 1817
  • Syrphus lunulatus Meigen, 1822
  • Syrphus venustus Meigen, 1822

Dasysyrphus venustus is a Holarctic species of hoverfly.[1]

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 6·25–10 mm. Eyes hairy. Tergites 3 and 4 with equal-sized yellow patterns. Tergite 2 pale pattern always present, as broad as or broader than pattern on tergites 3 and 4.Face with black longitudinal stripe. Female sternite 2 black at hind margin and dust spots on frons faint. [2] [3] [4][5] Male genitalia are figured by Hippa (1968).[6] The larva is figured by (Dusek and Laska (1962) [7]

Distribution

Palaearctic. Fennoscandia South to Northern Spain. Ireland eastwards through North and Central Europe. Mountains of Italy, Yugoslavia). East into European and Russian Far East and Siberia to the Pacific coast (Kuril Islands)[8][9]

Biology

Taxonomy

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