Bumblebee softwood hover fly

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Bumblebee softwood hover fly
Bumblebee softwood hover fly, female

Bumblebee softwood hover fly, female

Systematics
Class : Insects (Insecta)
Order : Fly (Diptera)
Subordination : Flies (Brachycera)
Family : Hoverflies (Syrphidae)
Genre : Temnostoma
Type : Bumblebee softwood hover fly
Scientific name
Temnostoma bombylans
( Fabricius , 1805)

The bumblebee softwood hover fly ( Temnostoma bombylans ) is a fly from the family of hover flies (Syrphidae). The genus Temnostoma has a convincing wasp mimicry .

features

Long and narrow species with a body length of 12–16 mm. The species is unmistakable in Germany.

Occurrence

The distribution is Palearctic , from Europe to Siberia to Japan. In Central Europe it is very common in the mountains and on the plains, there in clearings and railway lines. The fly can also be found as a flower visitor on St. John's herbs , buttercups , common snowball , black elder or rowan . They fly from May to June, as well as in July at higher altitudes.

Way of life

The imagos show a strong territorial behavior and hunt away every larger insect as well as males of their own kind from their close proximity. They usually sit on leaves near the ground, but can also be found a few meters above the ground.

The saprophage larvae are cylindrical in shape and adapted to the way of life in modern wood that was felled at least seven or eight years previously. To shred modern wood, the microorganisms of which serve as food, the larvae, with their pronounced muscles of the mesothorax and metathorax, move forwards and backwards, with which their chitin plates at the front end are set in motion as "friction plates". You usually start to dig circular holes at right angles to the grain at the bottom of a log. The larvae need 2 years for their metamorphosis to the imago.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Speight, MCD, Castella, E., Sarthou, J.-P. & Monteil, C. (eds.): Syrph the Net on CD, Issue 7. The database of European Syrphidae. ISSN  1393-4546 . Syrph the Net Publications, Dublin. Section Temnostoma bombylans
  2. ↑ a b c van Veen, MP Hoverflies of Northwest Europe KNNV Publishing 2004, ISBN 978-90-5011-199-7 . P. 218
  3. ↑ a b c d e Kurt Kormann: Hover flies and bladder-head flies of Central Europe . Fauna Naturführer Volume 1, Fauna-Verlag, Nottuln 2002, ISBN 3-935980-29-9 . P. 144
  4. ↑ a b c d Reemer, M., Willem Renema, Wouter van Steenis, Theo Zeegers, Aat Barendregt, John T. Smit, Mark P. van Veen, Jeroen van Steenis en Laurens JJM van der Leij: De Nederlandse zweefviegen . Nederlandse Fauna 8, ISBN 9789050112901 , EIS Nederland & Naturalis, 2009, 450 p. P. 328
  5. ↑ a b c Olaf Bastian: Hover flies . Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Vol. 576 Westarp Sciences, Magdeburg 1994, ISBN 3-89432-469-4 . P. 30
  6. ↑ Olaf Bastian: Hoverflies . Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Vol. 576 Westarp Sciences, Magdeburg 1994, ISBN 3-89432-469-4 . P. 54
  7. ↑ a b c van Veen, MP Hoverflies of Northwest Europe KNNV Publishing 2004, ISBN 978-90-5011-199-7 . P. 217
  8. ^ Reemer, M., Willem Renema, Wouter van Steenis, Theo Zeegers, Aat Barendregt, John T. Smit, Mark P. van Veen, Jeroen van Steenis en Laurens JJM van der Leij: De Nederlandse zweefviegen . Nederlandse Fauna 8, ISBN 9789050112901 , EIS Nederland & Naturalis, 2009, 450 p. P. 329
  9. ↑ a b c Graham Rotheray: Color Guide to Hoverfly Larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae) , 1993, Dipterists Digest, No. 9, 156 pages, ISSN  0953-7260 . Published by Derek Whiteley, Sheffield, England assisted by the Royal Museum of Scotland. P. 90

literature

  • Olaf Bastian: Hoverflies . Die Neue Brehm-Bücherei Vol. 576 Westarp Sciences, Magdeburg 1994, ISBN 3-89432-469-4
  • Kurt Kormann: Hover flies and bubble-head flies of Central Europe . Fauna Naturführer Volume 1, Fauna-Verlag, Nottuln 2002, ISBN 3-935980-29-9
  • Speight, MCD, Castella, E., Sarthou, J.-P. & Monteil, C. (eds.): Syrph the Net on CD, Issue 7. The database of European Syrphidae. ISSN  1393-4546 . Syrph the Net Publications, Dublin.
  • van Veen, MP Hoverflies of Northwest Europe KNNV Publishing 2004, ISBN 978-90-5011-199-7 .
  • Reemer, M., Willem Renema, Wouter van Steenis, Theo Zeegers, Aat Barendregt, John T. Smit, Mark P. van Veen, Jeroen van Steenis en Laurens JJM van der Leij: De Nederlandse zweefviegen . Nederlandse Fauna 8, ISBN 9789050112901 , EIS Nederland & Naturalis, 2009, 450 p
  • Graham Rotheray: Color Guide to Hoverfly Larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae) , 1993, Dipterists Digest, No. 9, 156 pages, ISSN  0953-7260 . Published by Derek Whiteley, Sheffield, England assisted by the Royal Museum of Scotland.

Web links

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