Parasyrphus annulatus

Bright Blattlausschwebfliege ( Parasyrphus annulatus )

The Bright Blattlausschwebfliege ( Parasyrphus annulatus ) is a fly from the family of hoverflies (Syrphidae ). She is a Wanderart.

Features

The fly reaches a body length of 7-9 millimeters. The third antennal segment is yellowish on the bottom, otherwise the sensor are dark. The compound eyes are hairless and on the yellow face is a Mittelstrieme. The female has a darker side forehead with yellow spots. The mesonotum seems to metallic and black colored green and hairy yellowish. The tag ( scutellum ) has a yellowish color. The abdomen is black and has the second segment two yellow side patches. On the third and fourth segment yellow notched in the middle of binding can be recognized. The rails ( tibia ) and tarsi of the anterior and middle Beipaare are yellow. The Bright Blattlausschwebfliege can easily with the Dark Blattlausschwebfliege ( Parasyrphus lineolus ) be mistaken, but which is more likely to be found in the mountains and has darker sensor.

Occurrence

The Bright Blattlausschwebfliege is widespread in Europe and northern Asia. They usually preferred coniferous forest, there in places frequently at forest glades, forest trails and forests, in the plain and in the mountains. Your flight time is from May to September with a peak in July / August.

Way of life

The adults are pollinators and feed on nectar and pollen of herbaceous plants such as ground elder, Creeping Buttercup and cypress spurge. The larvae feed on aphids and zoophag of larvae and eggs of other insects. They overwinter in the leaf litter of spruce.

Swell

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Genus Species Scutellum (insect anatomy)
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