Sercomyia are large flies with species that are bee mimics both short pile and long pile.
Sericomyiine flower flies are common in
boreal forests across the
Holarctic region and southward at higher elevations into the
Oriental and
Neotropical regions.[1]
Sericomyia species have larvae of the
rat-tailed maggot type, often found in ponds rich in decomposing vegetation where they filter out microorganisms as their
food [2][3][4]
Description
They have an oval flagellum with a plumose arista. The eye are bare and narrowly to
broadly
holoptic in male. The wings are darkly colored along the anterior margin.
Cell r1 is open. The stigmatic crossvein is absent. The cell
r4+5 with long petiole, longer than humeral crossvein.
The vein R4+5 is straight to moderately sinuate.[5]
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^Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. p. 253, xvpp.
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abBarkalov, A.V.
"Syrphidae collection of Siberian Zoological Museum". Novosibirsk, Russia: the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Archived from
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