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Species Platycheirus stegnus

Syrphidae; Platycheirus? - Platycheirus stegnus - female

Platycheirus - Platycheirus stegnus - male

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 Bacchini

Genus Platycheirus

No Taxon (subgenus Carposcalis)

Species stegnus (Platycheirus stegnus)

Explanation of Names

Platycheirus stegnus (Say 1829)

Size

6.8–9.1 mm(1)

Identification

Images of adult (fig. 23) & larvae (fig. 24)(2)

Range

so.BC-AB south to NE-CA and Mexico(1)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of Platycheirus Lepeletier and Serville (Diptera: Syrphidae) in the Nearctic north of Mexico Young A.D., Marshall S.A., Skevington J.H. 2016. Zootaxa 4082: 1–317.

2.	Flower Flies (Syrphidae) and other biological control agents for aphids in vegetable crops R. Bugg et al. 2008. UC ANR Publication 8285.

Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 16 February, 2010 - 9:40am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 January, 2013 - 3:02pm

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