Psarus
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| Psarus | |
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| File:Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten Tome 3 1822 Tab 27.jpg | |
| Psarus in Meigen Systematische Beschreibung der bekannten europäischen zweiflügeligen Insekten 1822 | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Diptera |
| Family: | Syrphidae |
| Genus: | Psarus Latreille, 1804 |
| Species: | P. abdominalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Psarus abdominalis (Fabricius, 1794)
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Species synonymy
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Psarus is a monotypic genus of hoverfly endemic to Europe. Its only species, Psarus abdominalis is 8.5–10 mm long. The body and head are glossy black. The frons has a distinct tubercle. The elongate antennae are porrect, with the arista on the apical half of the third segment. The abdominal tergites are extensively orange. Psarus abdominalis occurs from France in the west to European Russia in the east, and from the Baltic in the north to Greece in the south.[2][3] It is now locally extinct and threatened.[4] The habitat of the species is forest landscape and mixed agricultural landscape (bocage).
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another Meigen illustration (figure 1) the remaining illustrations are of Paragus species
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Habitat Parco della Caffarella, Rome
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Ukraine Biodiversity image
References
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- ^ Speight, M.D.,1988 Syrphidae known from temperate Western Europe: potential additions to the fauna of Great Britain and Ireland and a provisional species list for N. France Martin C. D. Speight Dipterists Digest [1]
- ^ Fauna Europaea
- ^ Rote Liste Centrum
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