Sphaerophoria interrupta

Sphaerophoria interrupta is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.^[1]

Sphaerophoria interrupta
male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Genus:	Sphaerophoria
Species:	S. interrupta
Binomial name
Sphaerophoria interrupta (Fabricius, 1805)
Synonyms
Scaeva interrupta Fabricius, 1805 Sphaerophoria menthastri Vockeroth, 1963 Sphaerophoria altaica Violovitsh, 1976 Sphaerophoria picta (Meigen, 1822) Syrphus pictus Meigen, 1822 Sphaerophoria menthastrisensu auctores nec Linnaeus

Description

External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera
Wing length 4·5-6·25 mm. Tergites 2–4 with pairs of spots, which may merge in the middle and hairs on lateral margin of tergites 3-5 pale. Genitalia figured by Verinden Verlinden, L. (1991) .^[2] See references for determination.^[3][4][5][6]

Distribution

Palearctic Fennoscandia South to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin. Ireland East through Europe and European Russia and the Caucasus then to Siberia and Lake Baikal. ^[7][8]