Melanogaster hirtella

Species of fly

Melanogaster hirtella

female

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Diptera
Family:  | Syrphidae
Genus:  | Melanogaster
Species:  |

M. hirtella

Binomial name
Melanogaster hirtella

(Loew, 1843)

Melanogaster hirtella is a European species of hoverfly.[1][2][3][4][5]

## Description

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Wing length: 5.25–6.75 mm (0.207–0.266 in). Black with dark wings. Male thorax and scutellar dorsum with a mixture of long and short hairs, varying from completely yellowish to a large portion of dark hairs. Face broad: width of the head/width of the face under the antennae: 1.91–2.08. Female thoracic dorsum with long, erect black to grey hairs. The male genitalia are figured by Maibach and Goeldlin de Tiefenau (1994).[6] The larva is figured by Hartley (1961).[7]

## Distribution

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Palearctic Atlantic Europe. Denmark south to Brittany, the Pyrenees and Portugal. Ireland then east only to the Alps (Switzerland and Liechtenstein).[8][9]

Habitat. Portugal

## Habitat

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Wetland, fen, marsh, waterside pasture, along woodland streams, beside ponds, lakes, and rivers.[9] Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Caltha, Euphorbia, Iris pseudacorus, Menyanthes, Mimulus guttatus, Potentilla erecta, Pyrus communis, Ranunculus, Sorbus aucuparia, Taraxacum, Viburnum opulus.[10]

## Biology

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The flight period is April to July. The larva is aquatic, associated with various aquatic plants, including Glyceria and Typha. The larvae tap the aerenchyma to gain their air supply.

## See also

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* Morphology of Diptera

## References

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1. ^ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd (revised) ed.). British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 275, xvpp. ISBN 0-9502891-3-2.
2. ^ Van Veen, M. (2004). "Addendum". Hoverflies of Northwest Europe: identification keys to the Syrphidae. Utrecht: KNNV Publishing.
3. ^ Van der Goot, V. S. (1981). De zweefvliegen van Noordwest - Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van de Benelux (in Dutch). Vol. Uitgave. Amsterdam: KNNV Publishing.
4. ^ Bei-Bienko, G. Y.; Steyskal, G. C. (1988). Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR. Vol. V: Diptera and Siphonaptera, Part I. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Co. ISBN 81-205-0080-6.
5. ^ Coe, R. L. (1953). "Diptera: Syrphidae" (PDF). Handbks.ident.Br.insects. 10 (1). R.ent.Soc.London: 1–98.
6. ^ Maibach, A.; Goeldlin de Tiefenau, P. (1994). "Limites génériques et caractéristiques taxonomiques de plusieurs genres de la Tribu des Chrysogasterini (Diptera: Syrphidae) III. Descriptions des stades immatures de plusieurs espèces ouest-paléarctiques". Rev.suisse Zool. (in French). 101: 369–411.
7. ^ Hartley, J. C. (1961). "A taxonomic account of the larvae of some British Syrphidae". Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 136: 505–573.
8. ^ Peck, L.V. (1988) "Syrphidae". In: Soos, A. & Papp, L. (eds.) Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera, 8: 11-230. Akad.Kiado, Budapest.
9. ^ a b Speight, M.C.D. (2011). "Species accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera)" (PDF). Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae. 65.
10. ^ de Buck, N. (1990). "Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België". Doc.Trav. (in Dutch). IRSNB (60): 1–167.

## External links

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* Images at boldsystems.org

Taxon identifiers

Melanogaster hirtella|

* Wikidata: Q2748002
* BioLib: 123742
* BOLD: 344257
* EUNIS: 75742
* Fauna Europaea: 65649
* Fauna Europaea (new): 71a9ce5f-5eb3-4d2b-be30-36c889e7682c
* GBIF: 6098389
* iNaturalist: 486789
* Insecta.pro: 986560
* NBN: NBNSYS0100003969
* NCBI: 2771364

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