About Leucozona laternaria (Müller, 1776)
For an explanation of terminology used in this description, see Morphology of Diptera. This species has a wing length ranging from 7 to 10 mm, which equals 0.28 to 0.39 inches. Its scutellum is black. Tergite 2 bears large, well-separated silverish-white to yellowish-white marks, though these marks are often merged. Tergites 3 and 4 have markings that are either narrow or entirely absent. Hippa (1968) provided illustrations of the male terminalia. See references for species determination. This species is distributed across the Palearctic region, ranging from Fennoscandia south to the Pyrenees, extending from Ireland east through northern and central Europe into Turkey and European Russia, and continuing through the Russian Far East, Siberia, to the Pacific coast including the Kuril Islands and Japan.
