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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Aschiza" » Hover Flies (Syrphidae) » Syrphinae » Syrphini » Paragus » subgenus Pandasyopthalmus (Paragus subgenus Pandasyopthalmus) » Paragus haemorrhous

Species Paragus haemorrhous

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited
Syrphid Flies in copula - Paragus haemorrhous - female Small Syrphid - Paragus haemorrhous - male Paragus haemorrhous? - Paragus haemorrhous 5 mm hover fly - Paragus haemorrhous Syrphidae, maybe tribe Pipizini? - Paragus haemorrhous Paragus reared from aphid colony on Conyza canadensis - Paragus haemorrhous Paragus haemorrhous? - Paragus haemorrhous Small brownish syrphid - Paragus haemorrhous
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Diptera (Flies)
No Taxon ("Aschiza")
Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)
Subfamily Syrphinae
Tribe Syrphini
Genus Paragus
No Taxon (subgenus Pandasyopthalmus)
Species haemorrhous (Paragus haemorrhous)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Paragus dimidiatus Loew 1863
Paragus auricaudatus Bigot 1883
Paragus tibialis of American authors, not Fallén 1817
Paragus obscurus Davidson 1916 not Meigen 1822
Explanation of Names
Paragus haemorrhous Meigen 1822
Size
2.6-3.8 mm(1)
Identification
Scutellum entirely black (no apical reddish spot) and hairs on eye not forming banded pattern. (1)
Range
In our area, from Yukon to Newfoundland, south to California and Florida, as far south as Costa Rica; also Palaearctic and Afrotropical(1)
Food
Larvae are aphid predators on a variety of plants(2)
Remarks
possibly a complex of species(1)
Internet References
Species page(2)
Works Cited
1.Revision of the New World species of Paragus Latreille (Diptera: Syrphidae)
Vockeroth, J.R. 1986. The Canadian Entomologist, 188: 183-198.
2.Flower Flies (Syrphidae) - Syrphidae.lifedesks.org
Contributed by Ken Schneider on 25 June, 2009 - 6:22pm
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch, Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 18 December, 2014 - 1:38pm

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