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. 2022 Apr 4;12(7):923. doi: 10.3390/ani12070923

Table 2.

Report on the 2019–2020 sampling of hoverfly species (Syphidae, Diptera order) in the 12 Parisian green spaces, with numbers of captures for each species. Larvae feeding type: “H.”: Herbivorous; “P.”: Predator; “M.”: Microphagous; “S.”: Saproxylic. Species in bold are those which are recorded for the first time in Paris. Superscript numbers 1 indicate possible conservation status, as a Regional ZNIEFF characterizing species.

Species Feeding AP BL BR BS CT JP LB MC MT PE SV VL
Cheilosia grossa (Fallén 1817) H. 1
Cheilosia sp. H. 1 1 1 1
Dasysyrphus albostriatus (Fallén 1817) P. 1
Epistrophe eligans (Harris 1780) P. 1 2
Epistrophe nitidicollis (Meigen 1822) P. 1 1
Episyrphus balteatus (De Geer 1776) P. 4 1 8 7 5 4 10 16 1 11 12 6
Eristalis arbustorum (Linnaeus 1758) M. 2 2
Eristalis similis (Fallén 1817) 1 M./S. 1 1 1 1
Eristalis tenax (Linnaeus 1758) M. 5 1 1 2 1 1
Eumerus amoenus (Loew 1848) 1 H./M. 2 1 1 1 1
Eumerus funeralis (Meigen 1822) H./M. 1 2
Eupeodes corollae (Fabricius 1794) P. 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 2
Eupeodes luniger (Meigen 1822) P. 2 1 2 4 1 2 4 4 2 2 4
Eupeodes sp. P. 1
Helophilus pendulus (Linnaeus 1758) M. 4 1 1 1 2
Melanostoma mellinum (Linnaeus 1758) H./P. 1 1 1
Melanostoma scalare (Fabricius 1794) H./P. 1
Meliscaeva auricollis (Meigen 1822) P. 1 2 2
Merodon equestris (Fabricius 1794) H./M. 6 2 2 1 2 3
Myathropa florea (Linnaeus 1758) M./S. 3 1 2 5 1 3 1 1
Neoascia podagrica (Fabricius 1775) M. 1 1
Neocnemodon vitripennis (Meigen 1822) P. 1
Paragus haemorrhous (Meigen 1822) 1 P. 1
Paragus pecchiolii (Rondani 1857) P. 1
Pipiza festiva (Meigen 1822) 1 P. 1 1
Pipizella sp. P. 1
Platycheirus scutatus (Meigen 1822) P. 1 1 1 3 1 2 3 2
Platycheirus sticticus (Meigen 1822) P. 1
Scaeva pyrastri (Linnaeus 1758) P. 1 1
Sphaerophoria rueppelli (Wiedemann 1830) P. 1
Sphaerophoria scripta (Linnaeus 1758) P. 3 8 2 5 6 3 8 10 14 10 2
Syritta pipiens (Linnaeus 1758) M. 16 13 2 1 12 4 9 7 2
Syrphus rectus (Osten-Sacken 1877) P. 1
Syrphus ribesii (Linnaeus 1758) P. 1 1 1 1 1
Syrphus vitripennis (Meigen 1822) P. 1 1 1 1 1
Volucella zonaria (Poda 1761) P./M. 2
Xanthogramma dives (Rondani 1857) P. 1
TOTAL (hoverfly individuals) 32 46 23 34 33 30 35 48 22 40 25 26
TOTAL (hoverfly species) 11 15 10 17 11 15 9 11 6 14 9 12