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Identification

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Pale yellow colour frons and face, dark brown to black median stripe on lower three-fifths of the face, black antenna, scutellum with pale hairs, wing extensively bare, terga 2-4 each with well-separated pair of large pale yellow spots, spots of terga 3 and 4 slightly oblique and with anterior margin slightly concave (Vockeroth 1992). Length: 6.3-9.8 mm (Vockeroth 1992)

Biology

Eupeodes volucris is multivoltine. Larvae of Eupeodes volucris feed on several species of aphids (Láska and Starý, 1980).

Distribution

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Canada South to California, Texas, Mexico, and Louisiana (Vockeroth 1992).

Taxonomic Hierarchy
Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Hexapoda Class Insecta Subclass Pterygota Infraclass Neoptera Order Diptera Suborder Brachycera Infraorder Muscomorpha Family Syrphidae Subfamily Syrphinae Tribe Syrphini Genus Eupeodes Species Eupeodes volucris Osten Sacken, 1877