Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Syrphidae Scientific name Cheilosia albitarsis | Phylum Arthropoda Order Diptera Genus Cheilosia Rank Species | |
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Similar Cheilosia pagana, Cheilosia variabilis, Cheilosia albipila, Cheilosia, Cheilosia illustrata | ||
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Cheilosia albitarsis is an abundant European species of hoverfly. Adults can be found in spring visiting buttercup flowers and this plant is also the larval hostplant.
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Description
External images A large, broadly-built Cheilosia (wing length 7-9ยท5 mm.) Male: thorax dorsum black-haired.Tarsae 1 tarsomere 5 square.Antero-lateral black hairs on tergite 2. Female: tarsae 1 middle tarsomeres pale.Mouth margin not protruding downwards. Arista of hair length equal to diameter of arista.See references for determination The larva is illustrated by Rotheray (1993)
Distribution
Throughout the Palearctic.
Biology
The habitat is woodland and forest clearings, agricultural land and forest clearings.Also montane and subalpine pasture.Flowers visited include white umbellifers,composites Ajuga, Allium ursinum, Caltha, Crataegus, Matricaria, Potentilla, Prunus spinosa Ranunculus, Sorbus, Stellaria.The flight period is April to June, and into July at higher altitudes.