Sphaerophoria fatarum

Sphaerophoria fatarum is a European species of hoverfly.[2][3]

Sphaerophoria fatarum
female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Syrphidae
Genus:
Sphaerophoria
Species:
S. fatarum
Binomial name
Sphaerophoria fatarum
Goeldlin, 1989[1]

Description

External images Determination requires examination of the male genitalia which are figured by Haarto and Kerppola.[4]

Distribution

Palearctic Scandinavia South to Belgium and France (Alps). Ireland eastwards through Central Europe to Switzerland and northern Italy. [5]

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gollark: y!play beware apioforms
gollark: I can probably wrangle the ABR core apioids™ into doing stuff.
gollark: quidquid latine dicit, sit altum videtur.
gollark: One of them can.

References
  1. Goeldlin de Tiefenau, P. (1989). "Sur plusieurs especes de Sphaerophoria (Dipt., Syrphidae) nouvelles ou meconnues des regions palearctique et nearctique". Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 62: 41–66.
  2. Stubbs, A.E.; Falk, S.J. (2002). British hoverflies, an illustrated identification guide (Second ed.). Reading: British Entomological and Natural History Society. pp. 1–469. ISBN 978-1899935055.
  3. Speight, Martin C.D. (1989). "Sphaerophoria fatarum in the British Isles (Syrphidae)" (PDF). Dipterists Digest. First Series. Dipterists Forum. 2: 34. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  4. Haarto, A. & Kerppola, S. (2007) Finnish hoverflies and some species in adjacent countries. Otavan Kirjapaino Oy, Keuruu. 647pp.
  5. Fauna Europaea


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