Pocota personata (Harris, 1780)

Prokhorov, A. V., Popov, G. V. & Zaika, M. I., 2018, New Records Of Hoverflies (Diptera, Syrphidae) From Ukraine. I. Milesiini And Rhingiini, Vestnik Zoologii 52 (1), pp. 13-20 : 15-16

Pocota personata (Harris, 1780) ( fig. 5 )

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d. Ukraine: Kyiv Region, Kyiv (center of the city), September 2006, 1 ♀ (A. Kotenko); Irpin env., 50.51 N 30.27 E, 24.05.2011, 1 ♂ (M. Zaika); idem, road in a mixed forest, in a rot-hole of Quercus robur , 5.06.2016, 1 ♀ (A. Prokhorov) .

D i s t r i b u t i o n: from southern Sweden south to the Pyrenees; from Britain eastwards through central and southern Europe ( Italy, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia) into European Terrytory of Russia and the Caucasus ( Stackelberg, 1970; Peck, 1988; Holinka & Mazánek, 1997; Speight, 2013; Speight, 2016). Ukraine (first record). Very rare and endangered saproxylic European-Caucasian hoverfly (Speight, 2016).

Figures

Fig. 5. Female of Pocota personata, dorsal view.