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Marsh Stripeback
Parhelophilus versicolor
Parhelophilus versicolor is a European hoverfly.
From the article Parhelophilus versicolor on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera Wing length is 7–9 mm. There is no posteroventral tubercle at base of Femur 3. Face is convex. Occiput has yellow hairs only. Reemer (2000) figures the male genitalia. The larva is figured by Hartley (1961) See references for determination.
Range & habitat
Palearctic Southern Fennoscandia South to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin. Ireland East through Europe into Turkey and European Russia then to western Siberia.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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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 465751.