Cheilosia carbonaria

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| image = Cheilosia.carbonaria.female.jpg

| image_caption = Cheilosia carbonaria female

| genus = Cheilosia

| species = carbonaria

| authority = Egger, 1860

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Cheilosia carbonaria is a European species of hoverfly. Like most Cheilosia it is black, and because of this may often be overlooked as a hoverfly. It is little recorded, and is considered rare and scarce throughout most of its range.{{cite book|author1=Stubbs, Alan E. |author2=Falk, Steven J.|year=1983 |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide|pages=253, xvpp |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society}}

Distribution

It is distributed from Scandinavia to France, and from the southern part of the UK eastwards through most of central Europe as far south as Greece.

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