Chrysogaster cemiteriorum

Description

Chrysogaster cemiteriorum is a European species of hoverfly which can be found feeding on umbelliferous flowers wetlands and damp meadows. For terms see Morphology of Diptera Anterior lower part of mesopleuron (above and posterior to coxa) and hypopleuron covered with grey coating. Face in male very broad and the surstyli obtuse. A large Chrysogaster with a body length body of 6.0 to 8.0.mm. The Palearctic. Scandinavia South to the Mediterranean basin; Ireland East through Europe (including the Alps) into European Russia, Siberia and the Russian Far East. Fen, valley bog and taiga. Flies over and among fen and damp meadow vegetation from June to September. Flowers visited include white umbellifers and Sambucus ebulus. Chrysogaster is a genus of small hoverflies in the subfamily Eristalinae. They are dark or black with shiny colourful reflections and can often be seen visiting flowers in damp marshy areas where the aquatic larvae live. Species in the related genera Melanogaster, Orthonevra, Lejogaster and Riponnensia were formerly treated as members of Chrysogaster.