Eupeodes lundbecki
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Eupeodes
Species:
E. lundbecki
Binomial name
Eupeodes lundbecki
(Soot-Ryen), 1946
Synonyms
  • Scaeva altaica Violovitsh, 1975.[1]

Eupeodes lundbecki is a Palearctic hoverfly.

Description

It resembles other Eupeodes. Determination is problematic. Key references are Haarto, A. & Kerppola, S. (2007) and Bartsch, H., Binkiewicz, E., Rådén, A. & Nasibov, E. (2009).[2][3] and Torp (1994).[4]

Distribution and biology

Iceland, Finland and Denmark south to the Netherlands, from France eastwards through Germany, Poland and Russia into Siberia and Mongolia and through the Russian Far East to the Pacific. Large-scale movements of this species occurs out of Scandinavia in late summer. It is found in the taiga in Abies, Picea, and Pinus forest from May to October. The larvae probably feed on conifer aphids.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ Insecta pro
  2. ↑ Haarto, A. & Kerppola, S. (2007) Finnish hoverflies and some species in adjacent countries. Otavan Kirjapaino Oy, Keuruu. 647pp.
  3. ↑ Bartsch, H., Binkiewicz, E., Rådén, A. & Nasibov, E. (2009) Blomflugor: Syrphinae. Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges flora och flora, DH53a. Artdatabanken, SLU, Uppsala. 406 pp.
  4. ↑ Torp, E. (1994) Danmarks Svirrefluer (Diptera: Syrphidae). Danmarks Dyreliv, 6: 1-490. Apollo books, Stenstrup.
  5. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  6. ↑ Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.
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