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Black-horned Smoothtail
Epistrophe grossulariae
Epistrophe grossulariae is a Holarctic species of hoverfly.
From the article Epistrophe grossulariae on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera Wing length 9-12·25 mm. Thorax dull greenish. Tergite 4 with entire yellow band. At least anterior femora dark at base, sometimes hind also. Frons black above lunule and at least half black-haired. Female has a bronzy-green area on upper part of frons. Yellow bands on tergites 3 and 4 straight. Tergite 5 with black band.
Male genitalia are figured by Hippa (1968) . The larva is illustrated by Rotheray (1993)
Range & habitat
Palaearctic and Nearctic Fennoscandia South to Spain, Italy and Yugoslavia. Ireland eastwards through Turkey Russia to Kamchatka. In North America from Alaska to Quebec and South to California.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 322356.