Cheilosia vulpina

Cheilosia vulpina is a Palearctic hoverfly.

Cheilosia vulpina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Genus:	Cheilosia
Species:	C. vulpina
Binomial name
Cheilosia vulpina (Meigen, 1822)[1]
Synonyms[2]
Cheilosia pigra Loew, 1840 Chilosia conops Becker, 1894

Description

Very similar to Cheilosia variabilis For identification see references.^{[3][4] [5][6][7][8][9]}

Distribution and biology

From Denmark to the Pyrenees and north Spain; from England eastwards through Central Europe to central and southern parts of Russia, then Central Asia and as far east as western Siberia. .^[10][11] The habitat is open coniferous and deciduous woodland, and grassland, pasture the altitude of Picea forest. Flowers visited include white Umbelliferae, Heracleum, Chaerophyllum, Bellis, Galium, Ranunculus Flies April to September. The larva feeds on the roots of Cynara scolymus.