Eupeodes (Metasyrphus) corollae ( Fabricius, 1794 )

El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis, 2019, Catalogue of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera), Zootaxa 4577 (2), pp. 201-248 : 207-208

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scientific name	Eupeodes (Metasyrphus) corollae ( Fabricius, 1794 )
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Eupeodes (Metasyrphus) corollae ( Fabricius, 1794) View in CoL

Syrphus corollae Fabricius, 1794: 306 View in CoL . Type locality: Germany (Kilia [= Kiel]).

Musca vorax Geoffroy, 1785: 486. Type locality: France (Paris).

Musca pyrorum Schrank, 1803: 114. Type locality: Germany (Baiern [= Bavaria]).

Scaeva olitoria Fallén, 1817: 43 View in CoL . Type locality: Sweden (Svecia).

Syrphus lacerus Meigen, 1822: 301 View in CoL . Type locality: Austria.

Syrphus crenatus Macquart, 1829: 243 View in CoL . Type locality: France.

Syrphus flaviventris Macquart, 1829: 240 View in CoL . Type locality: France.

Syrphus fulvifrons Macquart, 1829: 240 View in CoL . Type locality: France.

Syrphus nigrifemoratus Macquart, 1829: 241 View in CoL . France.

Syrphus terminalis Wiedemann, 1830: 135 View in CoL . Type locality: Egypt.

Scaeva annularis Curtis, 1837: 252 View in CoL . England. Nomen Nudum.

Scaeva octomaculata Curtis, 1837: 219 View in CoL . Type locality: England.

Syrphus disjunctus Macquart, 1842: 148 View in CoL . Type locality: Algeria.

Syrphus algirus Macquart, 1849: 469 View in CoL . Type locality: Algeria.

Syrphus corolloides Macquart, 1850: 460 View in CoL . Type locality: Unknown.

Syrphus dentatus Walker, 1852: 229 View in CoL . Type locality: South Africa.

Syrphus cognatus Loew, 1858: 378 View in CoL . Type locality: South Africa (Eastern Cape [as "Caffraria"]).

Syrphus berber Bigot, 1884: 87 View in CoL . Type locality: Morocco.

Metasyrphus candidus Matsumura, 1918: 17 . Japan (Hokkaido).

Metasyrphus libyensis Nayar, 1978: 539 View in CoL . Libya (Benghazi).

Material examined: 4 males & 6 females, St. Catherine , 28.VIII.1996 (El-Hawagry) on Mentha ; 2 females, Wadi Digla , 2.V.1999 (El-Hawagry) on Echinops ; 1 male, 3 females, Zaranik , 4.IV.2001 (El-Hawagry) [in personal collection of El-Hawagry] .

World distribution: AF: Mauritius, South Africa. OR: India, Pakistan. PA: Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canary Is., China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Madeira, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan.

Egyptian localities: A very common species, distributed in all Egyptian ecological zones [Sources: Efflatoun (1922), Shaumar & Kamal (1978) and the examined material collected by the first author].

Activity period in Egypt: Throughout the year.

Remarks: E. corollae is one of the commonest of the Egyptian Syrphids ( Efflatoun 1922). It prefers grassland, dune systems and dry river beds. It is largely anthropophilic, occurring in most sorts of farmland (including arable crops), suburban gardens, orchards and parks. It settles on low-growing vegetation, and visits the margins of streams, ponds and pools to drink in hot weather. In Europe, it has been recorded on an extensive list of flowers, especially the Umbelliferae ( De Buck 1990; Speight 2017).

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