Brachyopa bicolor

Brachyopa bicolor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Diptera
Family:	Syrphidae
Subfamily:	Eristalinae
Tribe:	Brachyopini
Genus:	Brachyopa
Species:	B. bicolor
Binomial name
	Brachyopa bicolor; (Fallén, 1817)
Synonyms
	Rhingia bicolor Fallén, 1817;

Brachyopa bicolor is a European species of hoverfly.[1]

Description

For terms see Morphology of Diptera
External images The wing length is 6·5-9·25 mm. The arista is almost bare, none of the minute hairs nearly as long as arista is thick at base. Antennae with segment 3 large, with a rather small round sensory pit on inner side below near base, removed from lower margin of the segment by about its own depth. Thorax with hairs on notopleural area all dark and the scutellum with the basal half obscured by dust, otherwise shining tawny yellow, with a more or less distinct transverse depression; face more produced than in Brachyopa insensilis. Male frons extensively shining yellowish, dusted only on the upper angle and very narrowly along eye-margins.

Distribution

Brachyopa bicolor is a Palearctic species with a limited distribution in Europe [2]

References

Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd (revised) ed.). British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 271, xvpp. ISBN 0-9502891-3-2.
Informatiion from Fauna Europaea

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[1] Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide (2nd (revised) ed.). British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 271, xvpp. ISBN 0-9502891-3-2.

[2] Informatiion from Fauna Europaea