Heringia vitripennis

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Heringia vitripennis - Wikipedia

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Heringia vitripennis

Heringia vitripennis in Meigen Europäischen Zweiflügeligen (figure 11)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Pipizinae
Tribe:	Pipizini
Genus:	Heringia
Species:	H. vitripennis
Binomial name
*Heringia vitripennis* (Meigen, 1822)^[1]

Heringia vitripennis is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.^[2]^[3]

Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Lateral dust spots on frons conspicuous. 3rd antennomere (basoflagellomere) elongate, 2–3 times as long as broad. Male coxa 2 and trochanter 3 without spurs. Abdomen tergites black. Abdomen elongated. Metatarsae 1 with a shiny, pale pit; metatarsae 2 without keel. Thorax dorsum with long white hairs. Face mostly black-haired. The male genitalia are figured by Delucchi and Pschorn-Walcher (1955).^[4] Delucchi et al. (1957) figure the larva.^[5] See references for determination ^[6] ^[7] ^[8]^[9]

Biology

A woodland species (conifer forest and plantation, deciduous forest (Quercus, Carpinus, Ulmus), suburban parks and gardens. Arboreal but visits flowers of white umbellifers, Euphorbia, Potentilla, Prunus serotina, Rosa, Rubus fruticosus and Salix.^[10] The larvae are predacious on adelgid aphids. The flight period is May to September.

Distribution

Palearctic Southern Sweden to central France. Ireland eastwards through North Europe and Central Europe into Russia and on to the Russian Far East and Siberia to the Pacific coast.^[11]^[12]

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.
^ Stubbs, Alan E.; Falk, Steven J (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd ed.). London: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp. ISBN 1-899935-03-7.
^ Ball, S.G.; Morris, R.K.A. (2000). Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae). Monks Wood, UK: Biological Record Centre. pp. 167 pages. ISBN 1-870393-54-6.
^ Delucchi, V. & Pschorn-Walcher, H. (1955) Les especes du genre Cnemodon Egger (Diptera, Syrphidae) predatrices de Dreyfusia (Adelges) piceae Ratz., Hem. Adelgidae). 1. Revision systematique et repartition geographique des especes du genre Cnemodon Egger. Z.angew.Ent., 37: 492-506.
^ Delucchi, V., Pschorn-Walcher, H. & Zwolfer, H. (1957) Morphologie und Biologie von Cnemodon dreyfusiae D. & P.W. nebst Beobachtungen uber C.latitarsis Egger. Z.angew.Ent., 41:246-259.
^ Van Veen, M. (2004) Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
^ 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.
^ Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) 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.
^ 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
^ de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. Doc.Trav. IRSNB, no.60, 1–167.
^ Fauna Europaea
^ Peck, L.V. (1988) Syrphidae. In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.

Taxon identifiers
Heringia vitripennis	Wikidata: Q5738561 BioLib: 123680 EoL: 749771 EUNIS: 75710 Fauna Europaea: 65607 Fauna Europaea (new): 5745482e-85a9-41bf-b347-3a4162e7b7c7 GBIF: 1535152 iNaturalist: 486862 NBN: NBNSYS0100003452 Open Tree of Life: 757895
Pipiza vitripennis	Wikidata: Q29406932 CoL: 8DD3T GBIF: 1535156 IRMNG: 11134838 Observation.org: 848065 Open Tree of Life: 757895 ZooBank: 83AE0EAF-1841-4796-BE53-28BC827F5509

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