Paragus (Pandasyopthalmus) haemorrhous Meigen 1822

• Main Authors: El-Hawagry, Magdi S., Gilbert, Francis
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Diptera; Syrphidae; Paragus; Paragus haemorrhous; Yukon; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5929790; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5929790

Paragus (Pandasyopthalmus) haemorrhous Meigen, 1822 Paragus haemorrhous Meigen, 1822: 182. Type locality: Austria & France. Paragus sigillatus Curtis, 1836: 593. Type locality: England (Darent). Paragus trianguliferus Zetterstedt, 1838: 3. Type locality: Sweden (Novacculum Umenaes). Paragus substitutus Loew, 1858: 376. Type locality: South Africa (Eastern Cape [as "Caffraria"]). Paragus tamagawanus Matsumura, 1916: 9. Japan (Honshu: Tamagawa). Paragus pallipes Matsumura, 1916: 11. Type localities: Russia (Sakhalin) & Japan (Honshu: Tokyo, Towada). Paragus ogasawarae Matsumura, 1916: 13. Type localities: Japan (Honshu: Iwate). Paragus coreanus Shiraki, 1930: 250. Type localities: Korea (Koryo, Kongo, Shakuoji). Material examined: 1 male, Wadi El Zohleiga, 2.V.1925, leg. Efflatoun (specimen published in Shaumar & Kamal (1978)) [EFC]; 1 female, Kafr Hakim, 10.VI.1924, leg. Efflatoun (specimen published in Shaumar & Kamal (1978)) [PPDD]. World distribution: AF: Widespread. NE: N America from the Yukon south to Costa Rica. PA: Afghanistan, Egypt, Europe (Widespread), Israel, Japan, Korea. Egyptian localities: Coastal Strip: Mariout. Eastern Desert: Suez Road, Wadi Hoff, Wadi Ibtadi, Wadi Rishrash, Wadi Zohleiga. Lower Nile Valley & Delta: Abu-Rawash, El-Mansoura, Ezbet El-Nakhl, Kafr Hakim, Kirdassa, Shubra. [Source: Shaumar & Kamal (1978)]. Activity period in Egypt: March to October. Remarks: Adults fly low through ground vegetation, with a darting, erratic and weaving flight. Males usually hover close to the ground or close to the foliage of low-growing plants and settles on foliage or the ground. In Europe, this species usually visits the flowers of the Umbelliferae, Matricaria, Origanum, Polygonum, Potentilla, Solidago and Stellaria (De Buck 1990; Speight 2017). Published as part of El-Hawagry, Magdi S. & Gilbert, Francis, 2019, Catalogue of the Syrphidae of Egypt (Diptera), pp. 201-248 in Zootaxa 4577 (2) on page 213, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4577.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2629643