Family Syrphidae Tribe Pipizini Rank Species | Subfamily Eristalinae Genus Pipizella Order Fly | |
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Similar Pipizella, Fly, Neoascia podagrica, Epistrophe nitidicollis, Lejogaster | ||
Pipizella viduata is a species of Hoverfly, from the family Syrphidae, in the order Diptera.
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Description
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 3 ·7 5-5 ·25 mm Genitalia figured by Van Veen (refs) , small species, basitarsi dusky or dark brown. See references for determination.
Distribution
Palearctic Fennoscandia South to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin. Ireland East Europe into European Russia and the Caucasus then to Siberia.
Biology
Woodland, scrub, dune grassland, heathland unimproved pasture, grassy clearings in woodland Flowers visited include umbellifers, Euphorbia, Galium, Potentilla erecta. Flies April to October
References
Pipizella viduata Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA