Fagisyrphus
Species of fly
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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 | |
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| male | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrphinae |
| Tribe: | Syrphini |
| Genus: | Fagisyrphus |
| Species: | F. cinctus |
| Binomial name | |
| Fagisyrphus cinctus (Fallén, 1817) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Description
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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]
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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.
