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Temnostoma apiforme

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Temnostoma apiforme
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Syrphidae
Tribe: Milesiini
Subtribe: Temnostomina
Genus: Temnostoma
Species:
T. apiforme
Binomial name
Temnostoma apiforme
(Fabricius, 1794)[1]
Synonyms
  • Syrphus apiforme Fabricius, 1794[1]
  • Temnostoma apiforme var. carens Gaunitz, 1936[2]

Temnostoma apiforme is a species of hoverfly.[3] Larva of this species feed in decaying wood of deciduous trees.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b Fabricius, J.C. (1794). Entomologia systematica emendata et aucta. Vol. 4. Hafniae [=Copenhagen]: C. G. Proft. pp. [6] + 472 + [5] pp.
  2. ^ Gaunitz, S. (1936). "Om tre syrphidarter (mit einer deutschen Beschreibung)". Entomologisk Tidskrift. 57: 6–9.
  3. ^ Stubbs, Alan E. & Falk, Steven J. (1983). British Hoverflies: An Illustrated Identification Guide. British Entomological & Natural History Society. pp. 253, xvpp.
  4. ^ 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). 82 (1). Moscow, Russia: Akademia Nauk SSSR: 44–51. ISSN 0044-5134.