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Platycheirus amplus

Platycheirus amplus
P. amplus male
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Tribe: Bacchini
Genus: Platycheirus
Subgenus: Platycheirus
Species:
P. amplus
Binomial name
Platycheirus amplus
Curran, 1927
Synonyms
  • Platychirus amplus Curran, 1927

Platycheirus amplus the Broadhand Sedgesitter is a rare Holarctic species of hoverfly found in wetlands, fens, moorland streams and bogs.[1] [2]

Description

External images and map For terminology see Speight key to genera and glossary or Glossary of morphological terminology
Frons have broad and ill-defined pollinose spots, occupying more than 3/4 of frons. Marks on tergites 3 and 4 are about 1.5 times as broad as long. The 3rd tergite is distinctly less than twice as broad as long. See references for determination.[3][4][5] [6]

Distribution

Palearctic: Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium. Nearctic: Alaska south to California.[7][8][6]

Biology

Habitat: fen and poor fen, flushes and brooks in moor and bog. [9] It flies June to July. Playcheirus larvae feed on aphids on various low-growing plants and bushes.

References

  1. ^ Ball, S.G.; Morris, R.K.A. (2000). Provisional atlas of British hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) (PDF). Monks Wood, UK: Biological Record Centre. p. 167 pages.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Van Veen, M. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. 256pp. KNNV Publishing, Utrecht.addendum
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b Young, Andrew D.; Marshall, Stephen A.; Skevington, Jeffrey H. (17 February 2016). "Revision of Platycheirus Lepeletier and Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) in the Nearctic north of Mexico". Zootaxa. 4082 (1): 34. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4082.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Retrieved 21 December 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY 3.0 license.
  7. ^ Fauna Europaea.
  8. ^ Peck, L.V. (1988). "Syrphidae". In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera 8: 11-230. Akad. Kiado, Budapest.
  9. ^ Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. 65: 285pp.
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platycheirus_amplus