BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Eristalis (droneflies)
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Eristalis arbustorum (Linnaeus, 1758) (a hoverfly) | 3 | 11 | |
| Species | Eristalis cryptarum (Fabricius, 1794) (a hoverfly) | 1 | ||
| Species | Eristalis intricarius (Linnaeus, 1758) (a hoverfly) | 14 | 4 | |
| Species | Eristalis pertinax (Scopoli, 1763) (a hoverfly) | 6 | 11 | |
| Species | Eristalis tenax (Linnaeus, 1758) (Drone-fly) | 22 | 3 |
Suggested Literature
Eristalis may be covered by literature listed under:
|
BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
ANIMALIA (animals) |
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
HEXAPODA (hexapods) |
INSECTA (insects) |
DIPTERA (two-winged flies) |
SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies) |
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Eristalis is associated with:
 |
larva | Mammalia - mammals | larva feeds on dung/debris wet manure | Rotheray, G.E., 1993 |
There may be more taxa associated with Eristalis listed at higher taxonomic level
|
DIPTERA (two-winged flies) |
CYCLORRHAPHA (a suborder of flies) |
SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies) |
Associated with Eristalis:
| larva | larva is endoparasitoid host of larva | Rhembobius - a genus of ichneumon wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) | Rotheray, G.E., 1993 |
Eristalis may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
ANIMALIA (animals) |
INSECTA (insects) |
DIPTERA (two-winged flies) |
SYRPHIDAE (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies) |
References
| Rotheray, G.E., 1993 | Colour Guide to Hoverfly Larvae (Diptera, Syrphidae) in Britain and Europe |
