Sericomyia
{{Short description|Genus of flies}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Seriomia silentis1.jpg
| image_caption = Male Sericomyia silentis
| taxon = Sericomyia
| authority = Meigen, 1803
| type_species =
| type_species_authority =
| synonyms = *Cinxia Meigen, 1800
- Condidea Coquillett, 1907
- Sericomyza Zetterstedt, 1838
}}
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. {{Cite web| title=Sercomyia | url=https://www.gbif.org/species/1538780| website=GBIF| accessdate=2020-07-28}}
Sericomyia species have larvae of the rat-tailed maggot type, often found in ponds rich in decomposing vegetation where they filter out microorganisms as their
food {{cite journal |last=Rotheray |first=G.E. |year=1993 |title= Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Britain and Europe |journal=Diperists Digest |volume=9 |pages=155 |url= https://diptera.info/downloads/df_1_9_Colour_Guide_to%20Hoverfly_Larvae.pdf }} {{cite book |last= Van Veen |first= M.P. |title= Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae |type= Hardback |year= 2004 |publisher= KNNV Publishing |location= Utrecht |isbn= 90-5011-199-8 |pages= 254 }}{{cite book|author1=Stubbs, Alan E. |author2=Falk, Steven J. |name-list-style=amp |year=1983 |title=British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide |publisher=British Entomological & Natural History Society|page=253, xvpp}}
Description
file:Sericomyia chalcopyga head.png
They have an oval flagellum with a plumose arista. The eye are bare and narrowly to
broadly holoptic in male. The wings are darkly colored along the anterior margin.
Cell r1 is open. The stigmatic crossvein is absent. The cell
r4+5 with long petiole, longer than humeral crossvein.
Species
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Subgenus: Sericomyia
- S. arctica Schirmer, 1913
- S. bifasciata Williston, 1887{{cite journal |last1=Williston |first1=S.W. |title=Synopsis of the North American Syrphidae |journal=Bulletin of the United States National Museum |date=1887 |volume=31 |pages=1–335 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7i4oAAAAYAAJ}}
- S. carolinensis (Metcalf, 1917)
- S. chalcopyga Loew, 1863
- S. chrysotoxoides Macquart, 1842
- S. dux (Stackelberg, 1930){{cite web |first = A.V |last = Barkalov |title = Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum |url = http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm |publisher = the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences |location = Novosibirsk, Russia |access-date = 17 August 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081020082104/http://szmn.sbras.ru/Diptera/Syrphidae.htm |archivedate=October 20, 2008}}
- S. hispanica Peris Torres, 1962
- S. jakutica (Stackelberg, 1927)
- S. lappona (Linnaeus, 1758)
- S. lata (Coquillett, 1907)
{{cite journal
|last=Coquillett
|first=D.W.
|year=1907
|title=NEW GENERA AND SPECIES OF DIPTERA
|journal=The Canadian Entomologist
|volume=39
|issue=3
|pages=75–76
|doi=10.4039/Ent3975-3
|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27847977#page/89/mode/1up
}}
- S. militaris Walker, 1849
- S. nigra Portschinsky, 1873
- S. sachalinica Stackelberg, 1926
- S. sexfasciata Walker, 1849
- S. silentis (Harris, 1776)
- S. slossonae Curran, 1934
{{cite journal
|last=Curran
|first=Charles Howard
|year= 1934
|title=Notes on the Syrphidae in the Slosson Collection of Diptera.
|journal=Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Amer. Mus. Novitates
|volume=724
|pages= 1–7
|url=https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/2099//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N0724.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
}}
- S. transversa (Osburn, 1926) {{cite journal |last=Osburn |first=Raymond |year=1926 |title=A New Species of the Genus Condidea |journal= Entomological News |volume=37 |pages= 51 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2655293#page/71/mode/1up}}
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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)
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Subgenus: Conosyrphus
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Gallery
File:Sericomyia chrysotoxoides.jpg|Sericomyia chrysotoxoides female
File:Arctophila flagrans male dorsal.jpg|Sericomyia flagrans male
File:Sericomyia lappona.jpg|Sericomyia lappona female
File:Sericomyiamilitaris.jpg|Sericomyia militaris female
File:Sericomyia silentis.jpg|Sericomyia silentis female
File:Arctophila superbiens2.female.jpg|Sericomyia superbiens female