Temnostoma vespiforme

Temnostoma vespiforme
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Genus: Temnostoma
Species: T. vespiforme
Binomial name
Temnostoma vespiforme
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Temnostoma vespiforme is a species of hoverfly.[1] Larva of this species feed in decaying wood of deciduous trees.[2]

References

  1. Van Veen, M.P. (2004). Hoverflies of Northwest Europe, Identification Keys to the Syrphidae (hardback). Utrecht: KNNV Publishing. p. 254. ISBN 90-5011-199-8.
  2. Krivosheina, M. G (2003). "To biology of flower flies of the genus Temnostoma (Diptera, Syrphidae) with description of larvae in four species". Zoologichesky Zhurnal (in Russian) (Moscow, Russia: Akademia Nauk SSSR) 82 (1): 44–51. ISSN 0044-5134.


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