Leucozona glaucia - arthropodafotos.de

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

Leucozona (Ischyrosyrphus) glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Blaue Breitbandschwebfliege

Synonyms and other combinations:

Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758) Blaue Breitbandschwebfliege
Leucozona glaucia, male
DE, Chemnitz, Hutholz; 2005-08-21 12:04:02
Image number: 497
male
DE, Chemnitz, Hutholz
2005-08-21 12:04:02
Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758) Blaue Breitbandschwebfliege
Leucozona glaucia, female
DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald; 2005-08-20 14:21:57
Image number: 498
female
DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald
2005-08-20 14:21:57
Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758) Blaue Breitbandschwebfliege
Leucozona glaucia, female
DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald; 2005-07-23 15:36:55
Image number: 500
female
DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald
2005-07-23 15:36:55
Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758) Blaue Breitbandschwebfliege
Leucozona glaucia, female
DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald; 2005-08-14 11:18:52
Image number: 499
female
DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald
2005-08-14 11:18:52
Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758) Blaue Breitbandschwebfliege
Leucozona glaucia, female
DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald; 2005-08-20 10:00:44
Image number: 501
female
DE, Chemnitz, Zeisigwald
2005-08-20 10:00:44

Classification:

Leucozona glaucia belongs to the subfamily Syrphinae, tribe Syrphini.

Distribution:

From Fennoscandia south to the Pyrenees; from Ireland east through mountainous parts of central Europe into Turkey and European parts of Russia; throughout Siberia to the tundra zone and on to the Pacific coast (Kuril Islands, Japan).

Habitat:

Clearings in humid deciduous forests, forest edges.

Description:

Body length 11 - 13 mm; wing with dark stigma on the front edge; eyes hairy; thorax dull brown, without lateral yellow stripes; yellow scutellum; abdomen black, oblong, tergit 2 with a pale band, sometimes interrupted in the middle, 3rd and 4th tergits with narrow spots.
A similar species occurring in Germany is Leucozona laternaria. This has a black scutellum with a yellow trailing edge. In Leucozona glaucia the scutellum is yellow.

Biology:

Leucozona glaucia flies from June to August in one generation. Adults visit the flowers of white umbelliferae, Filipendula, Sambucus and Senecio. They are most commonly found on Heracleum sphondylium.
The larvae undergo a mandatory diapause in the third stage.

Annotation:

Some authors consider Ischyrosyrphus not as a subgenus, but as a genus.

References, further reading, links:

Pape T. & Thompson F.C. (eds) (2017). Systema Dipterorum (version 2.0, Jan 2011). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2017 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2017. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
Gerald Bothe: Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Schwebfliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) Deutschlands und der Niederlande, DJN, 1984, ISBN 3-923376-07-3
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.
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.
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