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Cheilosia bergenstammi
Cheilosia bergenstammi is a widespread European species of hoverfly. Adults can be found in summer visiting ragwort flowers and this plant is also the larval hostplant.
From the article Cheilosia bergenstammi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera A moderately large (wing length 7·25-9 25 mm.), rather broadly-built brown species (abdomen elongate in males oval in females). Third segment of the antennae entirely reddish. Hind tibia 3 pale with black ring. Part of the Cheilosia bergenstammi species group and difficult to determine.
The larva is figured by Smith (1979)
Range & habitat
Scandinavia South to the Pyrenees and North Spain. Ireland east through central Europe to European Russia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 417898.