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Spring Epistrophe
Epistrophe eligans
Epistrophe eligans is a European species of hoverfly.
From the article Epistrophe eligans on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera Wing length 6·25-9·5 mm. Eyes bare. Stigma pale yellow. Tergite 4 with smaller yellow markings than tergite 3 or tergite 4 black.
The larva is illustrated by Rotheray (1993) The male genitalia are figured by Dusek and Laska (1967).
Range & habitat
Palaearctic. South Sweden to Iberia. Ireland East through Central and South Europe into Turkey and European Russia as far as the Caucasus.
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 447104.