About Epistrophe eligans (Harris, 1780)
Epistrophe eligans (Harris, 1780) is a species of Diptera. It has a wing length ranging from 6.25 to 9.5 mm. Its eyes are bare, and its stigma is pale yellow. For tergite 4, yellow markings are smaller than those on tergite 3, or tergite 4 is entirely black. Rotheray (1993) provided an illustration of this species' larva, and Dusek and Laska (1967) published a figure of the species' male genitalia. This species has a Palaearctic distribution, ranging from South Sweden south to Iberia, and from Ireland east through Central and Southern Europe into Turkey and European Russia, reaching as far east as the Caucasus.
