About Eupeodes corollae (Fabricius, 1794)
Eupeodes corollae (Fabricius, 1794) has a wing length between 5 and 8.25 mm. In males, the pre-genital abdominal segment is very large and conspicuous, and the genitalia are also large. Yellow spots on the abdomen extend to the side margins of the third and fourth tergites. The scutellum is covered mainly in yellow hairs. In females, the frons has white dust spots, and the boundary between the black ground color and yellow spots is straight. This species is distributed across Afghanistan, all of Africa, Bhutan, China, Japan, Pakistan, all of Europe, and India. Within India, it is primarily found in the northern and north-eastern regions, including the states of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Odisha, and West Bengal. Its Palearctic range extends from Fennoscandia south to Iberia and the Mediterranean basin, and from Ireland east through European Russia, the Russian Far East and Siberia to the Pacific coast and Japan. It is also found in China and Formosa, and across coastal African states all the way down to South Africa. Dusek & Laska (1961) provided figures and descriptions of this species' male genitalia and larva.
