Volucella inflata
Creators: name: Choi, Deuk-Soo
name: Ôhara, Kenji
name: Han, Ho-Yeon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Bombyliidae
Volucella
Volucella inflata

description: <i>Volucella inflata</i> (Fabricius) (Figs. 2A–I, 5E–H) <i>Syrphus inflatus</i> Fabricius, 1794: 280 (Type­locality: “ Italia ”, Type?, UZMC). <i>Syrphus diaphanous</i> Gravenhorst, 1807: 370 (Type­locality: [Germany?], Type?, lost?). <i>Volucella hochhuthii</i> Gimerthal, 1847: 10 (Type­locality: “aus der Umgegend von Kiew ” [=environs of Kiev] (Ukraine), Type Female, RIGA). <i>Volucella inflata</i>: Sack, 1931: 245 (redescription); Walker, 1951: 261 (redescription); Zimina, 1961: 146 (in Palaearctic key); Bankowska, 1963: 58 (in Polish key); Stubbs et Falk, 1983: 216 (British hoverflies); Stackelberg, 1988: 103 (in European part of USSR key); Verlinden, 1991: 178 (in Belgian key). <i>Diagnosis</i> This species can be readily distinguished from other members of the <i>Volucella pellucens</i> group by the yellowish brown apexes of femora, bases of tibiae, and basotarsomeres (Figs. 5E–H). The pale areas of abdominal tergite 2 look much more yellowish than those of other species (Figs. 5E, G). Males can be further differentiated by the scutum with brown lateral margins (Figs. 5E, F) and the eyes slightly separated (Figs. 2A, B). <i>Material examined</i> FRANCE: Broût­Vernet, H. du Buysson, m1 (USNM); Hte­Savoie Bossy / Frangy, 23. V.1992, J. Steffen, 1&amp;male; (YSUW); Balzers Ellital 550–700m, 13. VI.1997, S. Bieri, 1&amp;female; (YSUW). SWITZERLAND: Canton de VAUD: Cudrefin 435m, 23. VI.1976, Paul H. Arnaud, Jr., 1&amp;female; (USNM); Gençve Corsier­Port, 20. V.2003, Cl. Besuchet, 1&amp;male; (YSUW); GE 415m Bernex Chante­Merle, 23. V.1999, B. Merz, 1&amp;male;, 1&amp;female; (YSUW); Geneva 350m river of "La Laire", 25.VII.2004, H.­Y. Han &amp; K.­E. Ro, 3&amp;female; (YSUW). <i>Distribution</i> Europe. <i>Biology</i> This species has been found in sap run on <i>Quercus</i>, but whether it feeds on the material of the sap run or is a predator of other insect larvae within the sap run is unknown (Rotheray, 1993).
description: Published as part of <i>Choi, Deuk-Soo, Ôhara, Kenji &amp; Han, Ho-Yeon, 2006, Taxonomic notes on the Volucella pellucens species group (Diptera: Syrphidae) with a description of one new species from the Eastern Palaearctic, pp. 1-19 in Zootaxa 1185</i> on pages 8-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1185.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4920432
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