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Development sites, feeding modes and early stages of seven European Palloptera species (Diptera, Pallopteridae)
Two hundred and ninety-eight rearing records and 87 larvae and puparia were obtained of seven species of Palloptera Fallén (Diptera, Pallopteridae), mainly in Scotland during 2012–2013. The third stage larva and puparium of each species were assessed morphologically and development sites and feeding modes investigated by rearing, observation and feeding...Rotheray, Graham E
necrophagy, cannibalism, morphology, abundance, flutter fly, predation, larva, puparium, and saprophagy
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Host preferences of aphidophagous hoverflies from field distribution of their larvae
The patterns of occurrences among aphid colonies of the larvae of two species of highly polyphagous predatory hoverflies, Episyrphus balteatus (de Geer) and Syrphus ribesii (L.) (Diptera: Syrphidae), were assessed in three areas (Nottingham, Cardiff (UK) and the Czech Republic); in the last two sites, larvae of other syrphid species...Sadeghi, Hussein ; Rotheray, Graham E ; Laska, Pavel ; Gilbert, Francis
Syrphidae., aphids, niche breadth, food specificity, and predatory insects
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The syrphids of Serra do Courel, Northern Spain and description of a new Cheilosia Meigen species (Diptera: Syrphidae)
The syrphids (Syrphidae) of Serra do Courel, a mountainous locality of just over 20,000ha at the west end of the Cantabrian Mountains, northern Spain are poorly known. The Scottish based, Malloch Society visited the locality in May 2012 and collected a total of 462 specimens of 98 syrphid species and...