Genus Heringia

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Remarks · Works Cited

Not sure with this one - Heringia - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Diptera (Flies)

No Taxon ("Aschiza")

Family Syrphidae (Hover Flies)

Subfamily Pipizinae

Genus Heringia

Explanation of Names

Heringia Rondani 1856

Numbers

~30 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area(1): subg. Heringia s.str. | subg. Neocnemodon Goffe 1944

Remarks

H. calcarata larvae specialize on woolly apple aphids, Eriosoma lanigerum. Females lay eggs directly into aphid colonies where the larvae feed for ca. 9 days before pupating in the soil or on limbs. They significantly control aphids in apple orchards. (Short 2003)

Works Cited

1.	Key to the genera of nearctic Syrphidae Miranda G.F.G, Young A.D., Locke M.M., Marshall S.A., Skevington J.H., Thompson F.C. 2013. Can. J. Arthropod Identification 23: 1‒351.

Contributed by Martin Hauser on 27 March, 2008 - 10:41am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 19 January, 2014 - 8:06pm

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