Eumerus ruficornis Meigen, 1822

Heimburg, Helge, Doczkal, Dieter & Holzinger, Werner E., 2022, A checklist of the hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Austria, Zootaxa 5115 (2), pp. 151-209 : 170

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D7DA36B2-1A0B-4D8B-9277-4EA2BFDE4C5C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6354545
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CDF354-FFA7-FFE7-2789-FCCFE6EEFBB5
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Eumerus ruficornis Meigen, 1822
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Schiner (1862: 362) documented this species as “pretty mean and widespread; in wet meadows (…)”. The only “recent” records dates back to 1990 (Lower Austria, Scheibbs, Schlagerboden; (1♂) leg. Franz Ressl). The host plant of the larvae is the highly-local Asteraceae Scorzonera humilis L. ( Johansson 2011). Due to the extreme loss of its habitat, Eumerus ruficornis is close to extinction in Central and northern Europe ( Ssymank et al. 2011; Johansson 2011).