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Classification:

Volucella inflata belongs to the subfamily Eristalinae, tribe Volucellini.

Distribution:

From Sweden and northern Germany south to the Pyrenees and northern Spain; from Britain (England, Wales) eastwards through central Europe into European parts of Russia and on into the Caucasus.

Habitat:

Old deciduous forest with well-developed understory, including alluvial forest and thermophilous Quercus.

References, further reading, links:

1. Gerald Bothe: Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Schwebfliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) Deutschlands und der Niederlande, DJN, 1984, ISBN 3-923376-07-3
2. 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.
3. Menno Reemer, Willem Renema, Wouter van Steenis, Theo Zeegers, Aat Barendregt, John T. Smit, Mark P. van Veen, Jeroen van Steenis, Laurens van der Leij: De Nederlandse Zweefvliegen (Diptera: Syrphidae), Nederlandse Fauna 8, 2009.
4. Speight, M.C.D. & Sarthou, J.-P. (2014) StN keys for the identification of the European species of various genera of Syrphidae (Diptera) 2014 / Clés StN pour la détermination des espèces Européennes de plusieurs genres des Syrphidae (Diptères) 2014. Syrph the Net, the database of European Syrphidae, Vol. 80, 125 pp, Syrph the Net publications, Dublin
5. Graham Rotheray, Francis Gilbert, Phylogeny of Palaearctic Syrphidae (Diptera): evidence from larval stages, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 127, Issue 1, September 1999, Pages 1–112, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1999.tb01305.x