Didea alneti
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| Didea alneti | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Genus: | Didea |
| Species: | D. alneti |
| Binomial name | |
| Didea alneti Fallén, 1817 | |
For terms see Morphology of Diptera
The wing length is 9 ·75-11·5 mm.
The face mostly yellow. Halteres with at least knob black or dark brown. Male vertex not long, less narrow than in Didea fasciata. Tergite 5 black, rarely with spots. Male tergite 4 with front edge of wedge-shaped bars clearly separated from the front margin of the tergite or just touching front of tergite on median line. [4] [5][6] The male genitalia and the larva are figured by Dusek and Laska (1967) .[7]
Distribution
A Palearctic species with a wide distribution in Europe and East across Russia to the Pacific coast, Mongolia, Japan and Korea. [8][9] in North America from Alaska south to Colorado.[10]
