Loading AI tools
Species of fly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sericomyia silentis, is a species of hoverfly. It is widespread throughout the Palearctic but normally encountered in small numbers in mountain regions and moorland and bog locations.[1]
Sericomyia silentis | |
---|---|
male | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Diptera |
Family: | Syrphidae |
Genus: | Sericomyia |
Species: | S. silentis |
Binomial name | |
Sericomyia silentis (Harris, 1776) | |
Synonyms | |
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 9 ·5–14 mm. Pregenital segment yellow. Legs yellowish, base of femorae black. Tergites 2-4 dark yellow side-stripes widen towards tergite margins.
See references for determination[2][3][4][5]
Palearctic Fennoscandia South to the Pyrenees. Ireland East through North Europe and Central Europe (Alps) into Russia and the Caucasus and on to Siberia, the Russian Far East and Japan.[6][7]
Habitat: wet moorland, valley bog, fen and Alnus, Salix carr.[8] Flies May to October.
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.