Ceriana vespiformis ( Latreille, 1804 )

El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis, 2019, Catalogue of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera), Zootaxa 4577 (2), pp. 201-248 : 216

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5929804
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scientific name	Ceriana vespiformis ( Latreille, 1804 )
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Ceriana vespiformis ( Latreille, 1804) View in CoL

Ceria vespiformis Latreille, 1804: 194 View in CoL . Type locality: Barbaria (Nw. Africa) & Italy.

Ceria scutellata Macquart, 1842: 70 View in CoL . Type locality: Algeria.

Ceria intricata Saunders, 1845: 64 View in CoL . Type locality: Albania.

Material examined: 1 female, 14.IV.1924, leg. Efflatoun; 2 males, 2 females, I.1919, leg. Efflatoun [ESEC].

World distribution: PA: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey.

Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Mex. Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Biala, Gezeireh. [Sources: Efflatoun (1922, 1925) and the examined museum material borrowed from ESEC].

Activity period in Egypt: May to August.

Remarks: Efflatoun (1925) bred this species from larvae found in the flowing sap of a diseased white mulberry ( Morus alba ) at Gezeireh. The adult flies fast through more open areas of Mediterranean scrub vegetation at up to 1 m from the ground, emitting a very audible, high-pitched whine; it settles on vegetation or on the bare ground surface ( Speight 2017).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Syrphidae
Genus	Ceriana