Alder Halfband

Melangyna arctica

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae

Melangyna arctica is a Holarctic species of hoverfly. Description External images For terms see Morphology of Diptera The wing length ranges from 5·75-7·5 mm. Tergites 3 and 4 display white to yellow marks.

Distribution

Alder Halfband — (c) Adam Leigh, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United Kingdom · 26Ireland · 4Sweden · 3United States of America · 3Norway · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Adam Leigh, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionMelangyna arctica, Wikipedia contributors

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