Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) ➔ Class Insecta (Insects) ➔ Order Diptera (True flies) ➔ Family Syrphidae (Hoverflies)

Epistrophe melanostoma/nitidicollis

  • Epistrophe melanostoma/nitidicollis, female  5127
    Epistrophe melanostoma/nitidicollis     
    Epistrophe melanostoma/nitidicollis, female
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald; 2011-04-22 12:52:10
    Image number: 5127
    female
    DE, Chemnitz, Harthwald
    2011-04-22 12:52:10

  • Epistrophe melanostoma/nitidicollis, male  591
    Epistrophe melanostoma/nitidicollis     
    Epistrophe melanostoma/nitidicollis, male
    DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald; 2006-05-20 15:01:13
    Image number: 591
    male
    DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald
    2006-05-20 15:01:13


Classification:
Epistrophe melanostoma/nitidicollis belongs to the subfamily Syrphinae, tribe Syrphini.
Annotation:
The two species differ in the color of the hairs on the scutellum and in the covering of the wings with microtrichia.
Epistrophe melanostoma: Scutellum yellow-haired, wings completely covered with microtrichia.
Epistrophe nitidicollis: Scutellum predominantly black-haired, on the 1st basal and other wing cells there are usually areas without microtrichia.

References, further reading, links:
  1. M.C.D.Speight: Species Accounts of European Syrphidae (Diptera), Glasgow 2011, Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae, vol. 65, 285 pp., Syrph the Net publications, Dublin.