''Parasyrphus malinellus'' is a species of hoverfly, from the family Syrphidae, in the order

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

Description

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Wing length 7·75-8·75 mm. Triangular dark spots on sternites 3 and 4. Males have a yellow face with a black stripe and the mouth edge is black. The male genitalia are figured by Hippa (1968). See references for determination.

Distribution

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

Fennoscandia South to the Ardennes and the Alps. Ireland East through North Europe and Central Europe into European Russia then to Siberia to the Russian Far East.

Biology

Habitat: ''Abies'', ''Picea'', ''Pinus'' forest. Flowers visited include white umbellifers, ''Anemone nemorosa'', ''Barbarea'', ''Cardamine flexuosa'', ''Crataegus'', ''Meum'', ''Prunus cerasus'', ''Prunus spinosa'', ''Petasites albus'', ''Ranunculus'', ''Rubus fruticosus'', ''Salix'', ''Sorbus aucuparia'', ''Stellaria'', ''Taraxacum'', ''Vaccinium myrtillus''. 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 feeding.

References

Diptera of Europe Syrphinae Insects described in 1952 Taxa named by James Edward Collin {{Syrphidae-stub