Sericomyia Explained

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 regions.^[1] Sericomyia species have larvae of the rat-tailed maggot type, often found in ponds rich in decomposing vegetation where they filter out microorganisms as theirfood ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Description

thumb|Sericomyia head, plumose aristaThey have an oval flagellum with a plumose arista. The eye are bare and narrowly tobroadly holoptic in male. The wings are darkly colored along the anterior margin. Cell r1 is open. The stigmatic crossvein is absent. The cellr₄₊₅ with long petiole, longer than humeral crossvein. The vein _R4+5 is straight to moderately sinuate.^[5] thumb| Sericomyia wing diagramthumb|Sericomyia head, plumose arista

Species

Subgenus: Sericomyia

• S. arctica Schirmer, 1913
• S. bifasciata Williston, 1887^[6]
• S. carolinensis (Metcalf, 1917)
• S. chalcopyga Loew, 1863
• S. chrysotoxoides Macquart, 1842
• S. dux (Stackelberg, 1930)^[7]
• S. hispanica Peris Torres, 1962
• S. jakutica (Stackelberg, 1927)
• S. lappona (Linnaeus, 1758)
• S. lata (Coquillett, 1907)^[8]
• S. militaris Walker, 1849
• S. nigra Portschinsky, 1873
• S. sachalinica Stackelberg, 1926^[7]
• S. sexfasciata Walker, 1849
• S. silentis (Harris, 1776)
• S. slossonae Curran, 1934^[9]
• S. transversa (Osburn, 1926)^[10]

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, 1915)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sercomyia . GBIF. 2020-07-28.
2. Rotheray . G.E. . 1993 . Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Britain and Europe . Diperists Digest . 9 . 155 .
3. Book: Van Veen, M.P. . Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae . Hardback . 2004 . KNNV Publishing . Utrecht . 90-5011-199-8 . 254 .
4. Book: Stubbs, Alan E. . Falk, Steven J. . amp . 1983 . British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide . British Entomological & Natural History Society. 253, xvpp.
5. Review of New World Sericomyia (Diptera: Syrphidae), including description of a new species . 2012 . Skevington . J. H. . Thompson . F. C. . The Canadian Entomologist . 144. 2. 216–247 . 10.4039/tce.2012.24 .
6. Williston . S.W. . Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae . Bulletin of the United States National Museum . 1887 . 31 . 1–335 .
7. Web site: A.V . Barkalov . Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum . the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences . Novosibirsk, Russia . 17 August 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081020082104/http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm . October 20, 2008.
8. Coquillett. D.W.. 1907. NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF DIPTERA . The Canadian Entomologist . 39. 3. 75–76. 10.4039/Ent3975-3.
9. Curran. Charles Howard. 1934. Notes on the Syrphidae in the Slosson Collection of Diptera. . Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Amer. Mus. Novitates . 724. 1–7.
10. Osburn . Raymond . 1926 . A New Species of the Genus Condidea . Entomological News . 37 . 51 .