Cheilosia soror

Cheilosia soror is a Palearctic hoverfly.

Cheilosia soror
Cheilosia soror Haugh Wood, England
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Genus:	Cheilosia
Species:	C. soror
Binomial name
Cheilosia soror (Zetterstedt, 1843)
Synonyms
Cheilosia ruffipes (Preyssler)

Description

One of the Cheilosia species with bare eyes, long wings, partially pale legs and fused antennal pits. For identification see references.^{[1][2] [3][4][5][6][7]}

Distribution and biology

From Fennoscandia south to North Africa from England eastwards through Europe into Central Asia, Siberia, the Russian Far East and Japan.^[8][9] The habitat Fagus and Quercus (including Quercus suber) old forest and alluvial softwood forest of Salix and Populus. Flowers visited include white umbellifers, Cirsium, Taraxacum. Flies from May to September. The undescribed larva feeds on Basidiomycota.