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Identification

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Wing length 8·25–12 mm. Wing with a small, square, dark spot. Thorax with two grey longitudinal stripes. Katepisternum normally with yellow spot. Apical antennomere shorter than antennomeres 1 and 2 together. Keys and accounts *Coe R.L. (1953) Syrphidae *Van Veen, M. (2004) ''Hoverflies of Northwest Europe'' *Van der Goot,V.S. (1981) ''De zweefvliegen van Noordwest - Europa en Europees Rusland, in het bijzonder van de Benelux'' *Bei-Bienko, G.Y. & Steyskal, G.C. (1988) Keys to USSR insects. Diptera

Distribution

Palaearctic Fennoscandia South to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin. Ireland eastwards through Europe into Greece, Turkey and European Russia then through Siberia to the Pacific coast. Japan. North India.

Biology

Habitat :Deciduous woodland clearings and open areas in scrub woodland. Grassland with scrub. Flowers visited include white umbellifers, ''Calluna'', ''Chaerophyllum'', '' Cirsium arvense'', ''Euphorbia'', ''Galium'', ''Hieracium'', ''Hypochoeris'', ''Narthecium'', ''Origanum'', ''

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Solidago virgaurea ''Solidago virgaurea'', the European goldenrod or woundwort, is an herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across most of Europe as well as North Africa and northern, central, and southwestern Asia (China, Russia, ...

''.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 May to September, with peaks in June and August.

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Flies described in 1758 Diptera of Europe Syrphinae Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Syrphidae-stub