Sercomyia are large flies with species that are bee mimics both short pile and long pile.
Sericomyiine flower flies are common in
boreal forests
Taiga (; rus, тайга́, p=tɐjˈɡa; relates to Mongolic and Turkic languages), generally referred to in North America as a boreal forest or snow forest, is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces ...
across the
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 region ...
region and southward at higher elevations into the
Oriental
The Orient is a term for the East in relation to Europe, traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of ''Occident'', the Western World. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and coterminous with, the ...
and
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
regions.
[ ]
Sericomyia species have larvae of the
rat-tailed maggot
Rat-tailed maggots are the larvae of certain species of hoverflies belonging to the tribes Eristalini and Sericomyiini. A characteristic feature of rat-tailed maggots is a tube-like, telescoping breathing siphon located at its posterior end. This ...
type, often found in ponds rich in decomposing vegetation where they filter out microorganisms as their
food
[ ]
Description
Sericomyia head, plumose arista
They have an oval flagellum with a plumose arista. The eye are bare and narrowly to
broadly
holoptic
Holoptic refers to one of the ways in which the arthropod eye develops, particularly the eyes of various species of insects. Unlike dichoptic and cycloptic eyes, holoptic eyes meet along the median dorsal line of the head, in many species near ...
in male. The wings are darkly colored along the anterior margin.
Cell r1 is open. The stigmatic crossvein is absent. The cell
r
4+5 with long petiole, longer than humeral crossvein.
The vein
R4+5 is straight to moderately sinuate.
Species
Subgenus: ''
Sericomyia
Sercomyia are large flies with species that are bee mimics both short pile and long pile.
Sericomyiine flower flies are common in boreal forests across the Holarctic region and southward at higher elevations into the Oriental and Neotropical regi ...
''
*''
S. arctica''
Schirmer, 1913
*''
S. bifasciata''
Williston, 1887
*''
S. carolinensis''
(Metcalf, 1917)
*''
S. chalcopyga''
Loew, 1863
*''
S. chrysotoxoides''
Macquart, 1842
*''
S. dux''
(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 reviv ...
, 1930)
*''
S. hispanica''
Peris Torres, 1962
*''
S. jakutica''
(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 reviv ...
, 1927)
*''
S. lappona''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the sta ...
)
*''
S. lata''
(Coquillett
Daniel William Coquillett (23 January 1856, Pleasant Valley, Ill. – 7 July 1911 Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera. He wrote a revision of the dipterous family Therevidae and many other scientifi ...
, 1907)[
]
*''
S. militaris''
Walker
Walker or The Walker may refer to:
People
*Walker (given name)
*Walker (surname)
*Walker (Brazilian footballer) (born 1982), Brazilian footballer
Places
In the United States
*Walker, Arizona, in Yavapai County
*Walker, Mono County, California
* ...
, 1849
*''
S. nigra''
Portschinsky, 1873
*''
S. sachalinica''
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 reviv ...
, 1926
*''
S. sexfasciata''
Walker
Walker or The Walker may refer to:
People
*Walker (given name)
*Walker (surname)
*Walker (Brazilian footballer) (born 1982), Brazilian footballer
Places
In the United States
*Walker, Arizona, in Yavapai County
*Walker, Mono County, California
* ...
, 1849
*''
S. silentis''
(Harris
Harris may refer to:
Places Canada
* Harris, Ontario
* Northland Pyrite Mine (also known as Harris Mine)
* Harris, Saskatchewan
* Rural Municipality of Harris No. 316, Saskatchewan
Scotland
* Harris, Outer Hebrides (sometimes called the Isle o ...
, 1776)
*''
S. slossonae''
Curran, 1934[
]
*''
S. transversa''
(Osburn, 1926)[ ]
Subgenus: ''
Arctophila''
*''
S. bequaerti''
(Hervé-Bazin, 1913)
*''
S. bombiformis''
( Fallén, 1810)
*''
S. flagrans''
( Osten Sacken, 1875)
*''
S. harveyi''
(Osburn, 1908)
*''
S. meyeri''
(Fluke, 1939)
*''
S. superbiens''
(Müller, 1776)
Subgenus: ''
Conosyrphus''
*''
S. tolli''
(Frey
Freyr (Old Norse: 'Lord'), sometimes anglicized as Frey, is a widely attested god in Norse mythology, associated with kingship, fertility, peace, and weather. Freyr, sometimes referred to as Yngvi-Freyr, was especially associated with Sweden and ...
, 1915)
Gallery
File:Sericomyia chrysotoxoides.jpg, Sericomyia chrysotoxoides female
File:Arctophila flagrans male dorsal.jpg, Sericomyia flagrans
''Sericomyia flagrans'' is a North American species of flower fly
Hover flies, also called flower flies or syrphid flies, make up the insect family Syrphidae. As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers ...
male
File:Sericomyia lappona.jpg, Sericomyia lappona
''Sericomyia lappona'', is a species of hoverfly. It is widespread throughout the Palearctic.
DescriptionSericomyia militaris
''Sericomyia militaria '', (Walker, 1849), the Narrow-banded Pond Fly , is a common species of syrphid fly observed across northern North America. Syrphid flies are also known as Hover Flies or Flower Flies because the adults are frequently fou ...
female
File:Sericomyia silentis.jpg, Sericomyia silentis
''Sericomyia silentis'', is a species of hoverfly. It is widespread throughout the Palearctic but normally encountered in small numbers in mountain regions and moorland and bog locations.
DescriptionSericomyia superbiens
''Sericomyia'' (''Arctophila) superbiens'' is a Palearctic species of hoverfly.
It is a bumblebee mimic.
Range: Scandinavia South to the Pyrenees. Ireland East through Northern Europe Central Europe and Southern Europe (Italy, Yugoslavia) int ...
female
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q2075839
Diptera of Europe
Diptera of Asia
Diptera of North America
Hoverfly genera
Eristalinae
Taxa named by Johann Wilhelm Meigen
