''Parasyrphus lineolus'' is a

Holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...

species of

hoverfly Hoverflies, also called flower flies or syrphids, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the l ...

Description

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Morphology of Diptera Dipteran morphology differs in some significant ways from the broader insect morphology, morphology of insects. The Diptera is a very large and diverse Order (biology), order of mostly small to medium-sized insects. They have prominent compound ey ...

Wing length 7·25-8·25 mm. Black face stripe. Leg 3 black with at most knee yellow, apex of tibiae 3 black. Tarsi 1 all segments black. Pterostigma dark grey. The male genitalia are figured by Hippa (1968). and Vockeroth (1969). The Larva is described and figured by Heiss (1938) . See references for determination.

Distribution

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. Th ...

Fennoscandia South to the Pyrenees. Ireland East through Central Europe and South Europe (North Italy and the Balkans), then East into European Russia and from the Urals through Siberia to the Pacific coast (Kamchatka, Sakhalin Is.)

Nearctic The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America ...

Alaska to Quebec South to Colorado and New Mexico.

Biology

Habitat: ''Abies'', ''Picea'', ''Pinus'' forest. Flowers visited include yellow composites, white umbellifers, ''Acer platanoides'', ''Achilea'', ''Alchemilla'', ''Anemone nemorosa'', ''Calluna vulgaris'', ''Caltha'', ''Cardaminopsis'', ''Galium'', ''Inula'', ''Meum'', ''Petasites albus'', ''Potentilla'' erecta, ''Prunus'', ''Ranunculus'', ''Rubus fruticosus'', ''Salix'', ''Sambucus nigra'', ''Sorbus aucuparia'', ''Taraxacum'', ''Triplospermum inodorum'', ''Valeriana officinalis'', ''Veronica'', ''Viburnum''.de Buck, N. (1990) Bloembezoek en bestuivingsecologie van Zweefvliegen (Diptera, Syrphidae) in het bijzonder voor België. ''Doc. Trav.'' IRSNB, no.60, 1-167. The flight period is April to July. The larva is

aphid Aphids are small sap-sucking insects in the Taxonomic rank, family Aphididae. Common names include greenfly and blackfly, although individuals within a species can vary widely in color. The group includes the fluffy white Eriosomatinae, woolly ...

feeding.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1266012 Diptera of Europe Syrphinae Syrphini Insects described in 1843 Taxa named by Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt