''Hammerschmidtia'' is a
Holarctic
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genus
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of
hoverflies
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whose larvae live in sap under the bark of freshly fallen trees.
Diagnostics
For terminology se
Speight key to genera and glossary
The face of the male is tuberculate, with long hairs on the upper and lower sides of the lower three-quarters of the arista. Most of the hairs are several times longer than the arista. The scutum is armed with very evident spines, while the anepisternum, postalar callus, and scutellum have strong bristles. The abdomen is twice as long as the thorax, and the first posterior cell does not end acutely from the apex of the wing. The apical section of R
4+5 is longer than the crossvein r-m, and the upper marginal cross-vein M
1 is curved inwards where it meets R
4+5. The legs are armed with spines and the anterior four tibiae terminate in a row of bristles. The femora are considerably swollen, especially the hind pair, which has numerous conspicuous spines below.
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Genitalia described by Sedman ][ ]
Species
*'' Hammerschmidtia ferruginea'' ( Fallén, 1817) [
]
*'' Hammerschmidtia ingrica'' (Stackelberg __NOTOC__
Stackelberg is a surname, mainly known as the surname of a noble family of Baltic German descent (see Stackelberg family). Notable people with the surname include:
A
*Adolphe Stackelberg (1822–1871), Swedish count and Christian reviva ...
, 1952)[ ]
*'' Hammerschmidtia sedmani'' (Vockeroth, Moran & Skevington, 2019) [ ]
*'' Hammerschmidtia tropia'' (Chu
Chu or CHU may refer to:
Chinese history
* Chu (state) (c. 1030 BC–223 BC), a state during the Zhou dynasty
* Western Chu (206 BC–202 BC), a state founded and ruled by Xiang Yu
* Chu Kingdom (Han dynasty) (201 BC–70 AD), a kingdom of the H ...
, 1994)
References
External links
Images representing ''Hammerschmidtia''
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Diptera of Europe
Brachyopini
Hoverfly genera