Cheilosia caerulescens

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Cheilosia caerulescens

Cheilosia caerulescens female, Arnhem, the Netherlands
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Genus:	Cheilosia
Species:	C. caerulescens
Binomial name
*Cheilosia caerulescens* (Meigen, 1822)^[1]

Cheilosia caerulescens is a Palearctic hoverfly.

Description

A bluish-grey Cheilosia with dark legs and, sometimes, pale knees There are distinct dark shades, varying in extent over the two cross veins of the wings. The lower face is strongly protruding, the third antennal segment is brownish-red .It is bare-eyed. ^[2] ^[3] ^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] ^[8]

Distribution and biology

It is found from Britain and the Netherlands south to the Pyrenees and France east through Central Europe to European Russia and southeast to Yugoslavia and Roumania.^[9]^[10] The habitat is subalpine grassland and heath to above 2000m. where it flies from April to September, with peaks in May and August. The larvae feed internally on Sempervivum

References

^ Meigen, Johann Wilhelm (1822). Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäische n zweiflugeligen Insekten. Hamm: Dritter Theil. Schulz-Wundermann. pp. x, 416, pls. 22–32. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
^ 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.
^ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd (revised) ed.). British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 271, xvpp. ISBN 0-9502891-3-2.
^ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988a) 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.
^ Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
^ Coe, R.L. (1953) Diptera: Syrphidae. Handbks.ident.Br.insects, 10(1): 1-98. R.ent.Soc.London. pdf Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ Fauna Europaea
^ Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
^ Fauna Europaea
^ 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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Images representing Cheilosia caerulescens

Taxon identifiers
Cheilosia caerulescens	Wikidata: Q10745953 BioLib: 123414 BOLD: 384741 EoL: 3639916 EUNIS: 75399 Fauna Europaea: 65266 Fauna Europaea (new): 71378345-e374-4b23-94b2-2c9283ad3aa2 GBIF: 4516682 iNaturalist: 486751 IUCN: 149164391 NBN: NHMSYS0020978338 NCBI: 275650 Observation.org: 7810 Open Tree of Life: 467646 PPE: cheilosia-caerulescens

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