Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758) is a animal in the Syrphidae family, order Diptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Leucozona glaucia is a Palearctic hoverfly species with distinct abdominal marking patterns.

Family
Genus
Leucozona
Order
Diptera
Class
Insecta

About Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Leucozona glaucia (Linnaeus, 1758) has a wing length ranging from 8 to 11.25 mm. Its scutellum is yellow. Tergite 2 bears large silverish-white to yellowish-white marks, which are often merged. Markings on tergites 3 and 4 are either narrow or entirely absent. Male genitalia of this species were figured by Dusek and Laska in 1967, and the larva was figured by Dusek and Laska in 1962. See references for guidance on species determination. This species has a Palearctic distribution: it ranges from Fennoscandia south to the Pyrenees, and from Ireland east through central Europe into Turkey, European Russia, Russian Far East, Siberia, and the Pacific coast including the Kuril Islands and Japan.

Photo: (c) Piotr Lukasik, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Piotr Lukasik · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Diptera Syrphidae Leucozona

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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