Chrysotoxum, ELEGANS LOEW, 1841: 140

Nedeljković, Zorica, Ačanski, Jelena, Vujić, Ante, Obreht, Dragana, Ðan, Mihajla, Ståhls, Gunilla & Radenković, Snežana, 2013, Taxonomy of Chrysotoxum festivum Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Syrphidae) - an integrative approach, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (1), pp. 84-102 : 97

CHRYSOTOXUM ELEGANS LOEW, 1841: 140

Diagnostic features ( Fig. 3C–D )

Mesoscutum covered with mixed long yellow and black hairs; fasciae clearly reaching lateral margins of tergites (or ending just before the lateral margin, but the lateral margin is always partly yellow).

Genitalia: Ventral margin of surstylus less concave than in C. festivum and C. tomentosum .

Habitat

Deciduous forest/open ground, mesophilous/thermophilous deciduous forest and dry, unimproved grassland with scrub, on well-drained sites ( Speight, 2012).

Range

Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean; through central and southern Europe into European parts of Russia as far as the Caucasus Mountains and into Turkey ( Speight, 2012).

Figures

Figure 3. Tergites of investigated species, lateral view. A, Chrysotoxum festivum A; B, Chrysotoxum festivum B; C, Chrysotoxum elegans; D, Chrysotoxum elegans – intermediate form; E, Chrysotoxum octomaculatum.